>>Is it possible to access a VFP table from a dll written using C#, that can
>>pull records out of a table, delete them, and then pack the table?
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>>thanks
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>The best way to do this is use VFP 7.0 and have your VFP DLL be a SOAP/WSDL based XML Web service and then call that web service in C#. This way any client can use the service to do this, and it can be remote over HTTP.

This works fine from the VFP POV, however, and is great if one's going in that direction. It's not a great solution from a .NET programmer's POV who may not be a VFPer. Although one can argue that someone with VFP would have to write the stored procedure, too, I doubt that will be the recommendation for getting to, say Oracle data, or SQL-Server, or another data backend.

It's nice to be flexible, including us looking and feeling like other players on the field. It's partially technical and partially perceptual.