>Hi everyone:
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>does anyone know of a good book/webpage that would help me with taking an existing foxpro project and moving the data to MSDE (the free version)? Cetin recommended this to me a while ago and suggested using the cursoradapter in order to do this (in order to improve security), but this right now is a bit beyond my programming capabilities and I need a book/web page that could walk me through it (I've tried MSDE briefly and without a GUI it (for me) is difficult to work with).
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>Therefore, maybe something on MSDE and something on moving foxpro data to MSDE would be great. The problem that I see upcoming is that all my forms and reports are based on getting the data natively from Foxpro tables. I of course would need to change this. Is that something that I can do easily (I have VFP8.0)? Most of my forms have commands that populate them with data from the tables ("locate" and then form_text_box = fieldname.value), and a lot of replace commands to either save or make changes to the tables in foxpro.
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>Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated! Thanks.
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>Paul

Hi Paul,
MSDE is cut SQL server. It is freeware, but it has a few limitations. You will not find anything special for it, but you can use all the books for how to make VFP/SQL Server app. May be most of them are old and do not present newest techniques for working with SQLServer -like using of Cursor Adaptor(CA), where you will be able to query either VFP DBFs or SQLServer or Oracle or ...
If you like I can send you my wifes session notes about implementing of CA techniques in VFP8 or VFP9