>The problem isn't with the form designer, it's with the class designer. We cannot figure out a way to simply add a VFP table/cursor to a DE class in the class designer without copying/pasting an existing cursor and modifying it, or creating a cursor adapter object that points to the native table.
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>I would think that one could work with the DE as in the class designer similarly as when you are working with it in the form designer, no?

AFAIK, this is another no can do. You can add cursor and CA objects to it but not tables or views.