>>You can work directly with ADO recordsets just fine. It may be slower than >>the native VFP cursor, but that doesn't mean they are not useful.

I didn't mean they had no value at all. I'm just saying the client side VFP cursor is more useful than a client side ADO recordset because the VFP cursor can be subclassed to add custom functionality. Switch to using ADO for data access and you might as well use VB because your giving up VFP's best feature.

>>They come in very handy in middle-tier MTS-based components. But if convert >>you must, check out my GetRows() version of RStoCursor routine in the UT >>downloads :)

XML is quickly replacing become the standard for messaging.

Charlie