>Has anyone actually looked into these and tested them? Is it for real? The potential is awsome if it pans out:
>
>
>.NET Extender for VFP http://www.etecnologia.net/Products/CLRExtender/CLRExtender-index.htm
>(Use .NET from VFP without requiring COM Registration)
>
>Compiler which compiles VFP Code to pure IL
>http://www.etecnologia.net/Products/VFPCompiler/VFPCompiler-index.htm

Tracy,

Don't know whether this will answer your question, but here it goes - from what I read in a French newsgroup


(1) You can try it for 30 minutes. After that yiu have to exit foxpro and restart it

(2) a message: (I would have given the link but google is throwing server errors for the moment)

         CLR Extender Reference
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The installation is simple and straight. Unzip the 
eTecnologiaNetExtender.zip to the Tools directory inside the Visual Foxpro 
directory.

If you are using VFP 8 it will be located in c:\Program Files\Microsoft 
Visual Foxpro 8\Tools.

It is very important to extract the zip to this folder, it will recreate the 
folder structure needed for .NET Extender for VFP. Be sure your Unzip Tool 
recreates the folder structure (if you are usin Winzip mark the checkbox 
"Use Folder Names".

Then you could run from VFP the program "installer.app" located in the 
folder eTecnologiaNetExtender under your tools directory (tipically it will 
be at c:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Foxpro 
8\Tools\eTecnologiaNetExtender).

The installer just make one change of two options:

  a.. Adds one line to your Startup program to setup the environment, or
  b.. Sets the SetEnvironment.prg (located in eTecnologiaNetExtender\prgs\) 
as your startup program.
Exit and restart VFP it will load the .Net Extender toolbar which works like 
a Control Center for you.

Enjoy the .NET Framework Power from VFP!.


Remarks
You can make the installation to suit your taste just remember to add the 
line:

  DO HOME()+"tools\eTecnologiaNetExtender\prgs\SetEnvironment.prg"

To your VFP Startup File (_STARTUP variable).

You can modify your Startup File with

  MODIFY COMMAND (_STARTUP)