>I am just trying out some stuff in VB to see if it's feasible to have a VB or Delphi front end with VFP tables behind - Any comments????
You could use the OLEDB provider.
>maybe I just don't know how to get the best interface out of VFP!!!
What else are you trying to accomplish? You also might wanna check out some third party class libraries to see what they offer for interfaces. Off hand, there are the FoxPro Extension Classes...
http://fox.wikis.com/wc.dll?Wiki~FECInterfaceSeries