Hi Scott,

Using Codebase library could be a solution. Codebase comes with OLEDB provider for Xbase files and has a great amount of functions to read and write into xbase tables.

HTH, Igor.

>I have an appilcation that I wrote in VFP. I need to convert it to somehting else. I think VB would be a good choice, but how can I get VB to access all my VFP Data files, how doe sthe indexing and sorting work. This is an old menu based application, I really need to spice it up with some VB GUI.
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>Are there any framework programs that will do most of the creation of the forms based on the DBF file struc.
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>I also would like to use RTF and incorporate gif/jpg and text on text realtime.
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>Any thoughts would be great.
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>Thank you in advance for your help and information
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>Scott