Dear Terry,

>>>Are SQLCONNECT and SQLEXEC xBase? One passthrough yields a cursor don't "you" usually xbase the cursor?
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>No, they are not xBase commands at all. You're getting a dataset in the form of a cursor. Then you manipulate this using xBase at the client side. This is what I'm saying you should do.
>I do that all the time - did my remarks leave you belive that I did not work with SQL or passthrough cursors - been doing it for years - since S6, anyway!?

Well, I see we are coming to a point, then. This is what I refer when I distrust on the chance of doing a "use somesever.com:table order anytag". If we are talking about getting data in one shot trough a service oriented provider, then how do you manipulate that client-side is not SO important.

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>I work with XML a bunch too! Not all XMLs are tabular. Some will break them XMLTOCURSOR engines.!
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>Please, give me example of who "all the NET guys" are. What several VFP people working on .NET said (including me, sometimes) is that if you have some very stable data access (or even domain logic) components, and you need to expose that in ASP.NET, for example, interoperate is easy and works "quite" well.

>There were posts a while back - and articles 'integrating VFP with NET', etc, where it was suggested that a VFP COM. selecting a passthrough cursor and then converting it to ADO was one method of collecting data in NET!

Well, as I said, if you already have VFP data providers that you can leverage, .NET can play very good with that.

>I don't open the UT Mags that have "NET" all over the cover - but I have seen some. In fact, I have to chase down a lot of fox stuff on other newsgroups because UT has become so NET or seems to push the views of certain consultants that have their banners on the start page! UT aint as foxy as it used to be!:)

I'm afraid that you are commiting a great mistake. The cover article doesn't represent the whole content, and UTMag has been publishing LOTs of VFP stuff, and we have more and more on the pipeline. If you do an statistic (I'll not push mine to keep the thing truly independent), the amount of VFP (or VFP-oriented) articles is 60~70% on average.

Most of the .NET stuff we provide is content that any VFP developer starting to delve in .NET can take advantage of (like Cathi Gero, Éric Moreau or Kevin McNeish columns, for example). And we will keep running more VFP + .NET articles, additionally to pure VFP content. Given our monthly rate of content, I think our only competitor in the VFP arena is FoxTalk, thanks to David Stevenson increased push (although David knows he'll be defeated sonner or later < S >).

Stay tuned to UTMag, I'm sure you'll find plenty of interesting content ahead!

Best regards,