>>>Why would you want to use ADO.NET datasets native from VFP?
>>
>>The first thing that comes to mind here would be a recordset returned from a
>web service. I don't know if this is actually what Stephen has in mind or not.
>
>Why would you want to pass an ADO.NET DataSet object through an XML Web service
>to VFP when you can use XML (from ADO.NET) and then use the new features in VFP
>8.0 to convert it to VFP data table(s)?

Continuing the theorizing, what if you don't have control over the web service, and it, for some reason, returns the dataset instead of XML?

I agree that it should return XML, and that would make it much easier to work with.