Tony,

>I'm going to be starting to develop my .NET Purchasing application which is currently in FoxPro DOS, and has been since FPDOS many years ago.
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>Since I have the FoxPro free tables already set up and in use on our network, should I be using them, or is it better to move them to a SQL Database and develop the new application around the SQL data?

I recommend moving to SQL Server tables if possible. .NET works much better with SQL Server than with free Fox tables, plus you get all the benefits of SQL server. You can also choose to use MSDE rather than SQL Server where that makes sense.

Regards,