>But I also have come to appreciate ADO. I really like the
>ability to pass a recordset as a parameter. The closest
>VFP comes to that is SCATTER NAME ObjectName. But ADO has
>the funtionality built in to update, and transactions.
>
>I like this because I do some work where I manipulate data in
>various DLL's, both in VFP and VB.

As for your enhancement request, XML is the way to go for this. Continue this thread with me next week sometime.