>ado.net is not odbc.
>
>>>Remeber that I am connected to an *OLD* style FPW26 data table through >>>ADO.net. Does ADO.net even recognize the index for a free table?

Yupp, I was guessing that you fill your datasets by reading
the fpw-tables via odbc connection / dataadapter and so on.

How are you accessing your fpw tables ?

regards

thomas