>One of the difficult things for a VFP developer when they start to use VB is the lack of a data cursor. A cursor is a table of data records. If I use ADO I get similar functionality but what if I have an n-tier applications that has passed some up some XML to the VB front-end. What do I convert the XML into so that I can manipulate it with VB?

Without knowing much about your VFP cursor, I may have a suggestion for you.

Do you know the disconnected recordsets? You need to open a client-sided recordset and then you set its ActiveConnection property to Nothing. This recordset is then unbound from the database and can be pass through tiers efficiently.