>3. VFP 8 included a new Cursor Adapter Class that should make working with
>native cursors, ODBC datasources, and ADO data sources homogenous. I notice
>that ADO.Net is missing from the list. How can we claim "excellent integration"
>when this new data feature completely excludes the preferred means of data
>access in .Net?

Actually, this seems a bit misleading to me. The CursorAdapter is the way that VFP talks to OLE DB: ADO .NET is the way that .NET talks to OLE DB. The concept of having CursorAdapters talk to ADO .NET is off-base.