Asif,

I wouldn't give up on the VFP OLEDB Provider so quickly if I were you. It *does* work with .NET, I have used it. I'm assuming that you still have something configured incorrectly, but unfortunately I don't have any quesses as to what that might be ....

~~Bonnie

>Thanks for the offer but I need to be able to update the source table also.
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>No matter. I have come to expect this kind of road block with anything related to FoxPro and started moving away from FP a couple of years back.
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>I still cannot understand why someone would create a VFP OLEDB Provider for VFP users only? M$ documentation implies that any .Net client can use it.
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>It will take me a day to convert the existing VFP application to VB, and I have already confirmed that I can access an Access 2000 database via the Jet 4.0 OleDB Provider and C# client.
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>I appreciate the help of all those who responded to this thread.
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>Thanks.
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>>I tried to use it too. Never got it to working. Also, ODBC.NET providers are not tested for Fox drivers, hence doesn't make sense to use it in a production app.
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>>Though, I wrote a simple code that gets XML from Fox and converts it to DataSet in .NET..Send me an email if you are interested...
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>>>I cannot seem to connect to a VFP database using the oleDbConnection object.
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>>>I have setup an ODBC connection to the directory that holds the free VFP tables and I am using the oleDbConnection object to access the tables via the "Microsoft OLE DB Provider for ODBC Drivers" which connects to the ODBC connection.
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>>>How do I connect to a DBF table using ADO.NET?
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>>>I get the following error:
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>>>The .Net Data OLE DB Provider(System.Data.OleDb) does not support the MSDASQL Provider, Microsoft OLE DB Provider for ODBC Drivers.