>Rick is right. It is unlikely that we will write an ADO .NET provider from scratch, since it does not buy us a whole lot. We will wrap the OLEDB provider and go thru it for the functionality it does provide. Beyond that we may have to write some additional behaviors.
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>DDEX itself is the integration mechanism with VS 2005 for an ADO.NET provider.

It's nice to hear that something is being done. I don't remember the specifics, but I do remember receiving errors when trying to drag-and-drop a VFP table to the design surface in VS 2002. I assume this will make the visual stuff work with VFP data?