Michel,

>In order to access a VFP table, by the use of the OleDbDataAdapter, is the only way to install the VFP Ole DB provider on the PC? I am looking for a way to avoid having to install that provider. Is there such possibility?

You can, of course, create a VFP COM server that can return results as XML that can be read into a dataset... but then, of course, if the data is local to the machine, you have to install the COM Server on the client and performance would probably be worse than through OLE-DB.

However, if the data is on a server and not on the local computer, and if the datasets returned are small, you might find the COM Server on the server (or a Web Service) an acceptable solution.