>Is there a tool in Visual Studio to use LINQ to directly query Foxpro free tables? If >there is not now, might someone be building one?

>The reason I am asking is to understand if I can begin to write new Visual Studio apps >to read/write data against Foxpro tables in an environemnt where the data must remain >in Foxpro tables so that other legacy VFP apps can remain in use for several more >years.

That can be accomplished with Visual Studio 2005 and the .NET 2.0 support library.

No need for LINQ.

i think it can be accomplished with Visual Studio 2001/1.0 ,but I've never tried it.