>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?
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>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.

You can connect to a VFP database (or free tables) using the VFP OleDb driver.