True - I should of explained that better....anyway I think there is enough of these concepts and ideas to keep Micro$oft from making VFP open source....somehow or another it would end up costing them money to do so.

>There is no VFP "source code" in SQL Server and LINQ, but there are concepts and ideas.
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>>I will when the message appears - but I don't see how they can do that - from what I've heard lots of the VFP source code has turned up in other MS products like SQL Server and LINQ.....