>>LOL... Where did you get that silly notion? Local data engine? Give me a reference or a link to follow.
You must have missed the detailed UT discussion on this point. At present a local data collection in dotNET is memory-based and can bring an app to its knees by hogging memory, unlike a VFP local cursor that spans efficiently to disk as required. This is the "local data facility" that MS has committed to add to dotNET, not cursors and native dbfs if that is what you thought was meant.
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
