:-)

Getting closer - thanks for the help. I have moved a few more lines down in the code.

I am getting an unhandled exception of 'System.Data.OleDb.OleDbException'occured in system.data.dll for the line:

OleDbDataReader Reader = Command.ExecuteReader();

as used below

string ConnectionString = @"Provider=vfpoledb;Data Source=c:\datadotnet\vfp\bin\debug\samples.dbc";
/// Create the connection
OleDbConnection Connection = new OleDbConnection(ConnectionString);
/// Open the connection, access the data and close the connection
Connection.Open();
string SelectCmd = "SELECT TOP 3 LastName, FirstName, Title FROM Employees ORDER BY employeeid";
OleDbCommand Command = new OleDbCommand(SelectCmd, Connection);
OleDbDataReader Reader = Command.ExecuteReader();

Leo