>>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?
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>Depends on the nature of the XML. The app I am working on now passes XML from the data access tier... I started the project using a wwXML style XML document, but then decided to just persist ADO recordsets to XML and pass those. You can then use that XML to create a RS from a VB or VFP client. I also wrote a function that converts ADO XML to a VFP cursor, so I have the best of both worlds.

Sorry Erik, I don't understand your answer. Can you point me to any resources? In particular I don't understand the difference between an XML document and "persist ADO recordsets to XML". Also what is "ADO XML"? Is this a special kind of ADO or XML?