>>Why not?
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>I am trying to understand how from VB.NET using OleDB that I would be able to get a handle on the primary key, when auto increment, once the insert has been done. I understand this works in VFP but I cannot see how this could work in .NET.

Aleksey is sying that you can call GETAUTOINCVALUE(0) as you would call VFP stored procedure. It doesn't requiered DBC and will work with free table. If you put FXP in the same directory as the tables, you can call it as a stored procedure too.