To add, my blog entry talked about this being the reincarnation of Fox. http://www.craigberntson.com/archives/2005_06_08_archive.asp#111825002355535716

>I don't know if this has been posted here yet, but it was mentioned over on the ProFox list and also was blogged by Craig Berntson today. This eWeek article has a very interesting reference, in about the sixth paragraph, to Visual FoxPro features going into .NET:
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>http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1825081,00.asp
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>Sources said high-level Microsoft architects are focusing on how "Orcas," the follow-on version of Visual Studio, will more easily and efficiently handle data via future versions of both Visual Basic and Visual C#. In fact, Anders Hejlsberg, a top Microsoft software architect, is working on Visual C# 3.0 and has produced compiler technology that accelerates data integration. The Visual Basic team is working to deliver similar functionality, based on Microsoft's FoxPro technology base, sources said.
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>Sounds like some major changes are going on inside the .NET framework for future versions, to enable things that we VFP people take for granted. I guess it remains to be seen whether they get it right the first time...
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>Wouldn't you like to know who the "sources" are? :-)