>>....is it possible to create a new stored procedure via OLE DB if there are no stored procedures at all?
>
>There are built-in procedures.
>
>

>EXECSCRIPT("APPEND PROCEDURES FROM ...")
>

Here's an example:

Imports System
Imports System.Data
Imports System.Data.OleDb

Module Module1

    Sub Main()

        Try

            Dim cn1 As New OleDbConnection( _
                         "Provider=VFPOLEDB.1;Data Source=C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual FoxPro 9\Samples\Northwind\Northwind.dbc;")
            cn1.Open()
            '-- C:\HelloWorld.txt
            '-- Procedure(HelloWorld)
            '--     Return "Hello World"
            '-- EndProc()

            Dim cmd1 As New OleDbCommand( _
                "ExecScript('Append Procedures From C:\HelloWorld.txt')", cn1)
            cmd1.ExecuteNonQuery()

            Dim cmd2 As New OleDbCommand("HelloWorld()", cn1)
            Dim val1 As String = cmd2.ExecuteScalar()
            MsgBox(val1.ToString())

            cn1.Close()

        Catch e As Exception
            MsgBox(e.ToString())
        End Try

    End Sub

End Module

Thanks Alexy for all your help. (Now I'm off to answer a newsgroup question.)