>>Steve,
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>>ADO is not native to anything. It is an external data access mechanism. ADO can connect to anything that has either ODBC or OLEDB capabilities. VFP can use ADO just like any other tool can use ADO.
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>Native was a bad choice of words on my part. My comment/question was that there is not an OLE DB providor for Foxpro data. My understanding is to get to FoxPro data from a FoxPro program, using ADO, you have to go through an ODBC driver.

Currently that is correct, but an OLE-DB provider will ship with VFP 7.0.