>>An idea worth exploring. I'll start a separate thread for this.
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>That was the original plan before being dropped by Microsoft, largely due to the FoxPro developer community (at least the vocal part of the community) not wanting it.

I'm not sure that it actually happened that way.....

Nevertheless, check out Craig's response in the thread that Don started: Re: VFP that compiles on the .NET CLR - Why Not? Thread #1130698 Message #1131041