>> I've been reading this thread for a couple of days and a thought has
>> occurred to me about the removal of the best db product at MS. Without a
>> solid db development platform in VS do you think that maybe there is a
>> team somewhere in the backrooms at MS working on a complete and up to
>> date db addition for VS written in C#? Yes, I know this is only
>> speculation, but who knows?

Well, there is SQL Compact Edition, but in terms of it becoming Microsoft's new best database product, I don't think it's it. However, it does solve a lot of the problems VFP developers have with .NET when it comes to storing data in a local file.

Markus