Hi Simon,

>Anyway, whatever I know, the key question I must ask then is this: on your evolutionary roadmap of data access technologies, are CursorAdapters a solution or a step to a solution? There have been so many variations on data access methods for VB that I am wary of starting to use something in VFP that may also start going through many iterations. Each or all of those could break my code and that must not happen.
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In my opinion, CursorAdapter is a solution. Yes, it has some issues and may be it is missing some functionality that you want it to have. However, even right now, almost all those problems can be solved by sub-classing and customizing CursorAdapter class. CursorAdapter provides ready to use default implementation. However, for me, the main CursorAdapter's advantage by comparison to remote view is the ability to customize almost any data source related operation (up to complete replacement of default functionality) and continue to keep the same integration with VFP engine. Also, whether you are using customized CursorAdapter object or the one that uses default implementation, your coding style against it stays the same. And I can assure you that we are working on eliminating shortcomings that CursorAdapter has now. If you have any ideas how we can improve CursorAdapter class, I am very interested to hear them.

>I appear to have become tied in to your time here for which I am grateful, however I am equally interested in white papers etc. that I can refer to offline if you know of any?
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Unfortunately, I can't give you any reference to white papers, but I will be glad to answer any question about CursorAdapter here on UT. Please, don't hesitate, ask. Just one suggestion, try to make your questions more or less specific. General questions tend to get general answers and general answer doesn't always help to understand things better. Just try to implement something using CursorAdapter class, post questions if you can't figure out how to make it work. I am sure, soon you will get a feeling how to use CursorAdapter class and, which is more important, where in your application you can benefit from it.

Thanks,
Aleksey.