>I think the confusion comes from past experience...
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>VB 6 was VB 6, whether it was the development tool or the runtime.
>VFP 9 was VFP 9..same story.
>Same with VC++, etc.

Yeah. They wouldn't want to be confusing by specifying VFP 9 Development and VFP9 Runtime. Call one VFP2.30103 and the other VFP 12 beta 2.

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>>I've noticed that people often confuse the various issues (not having a go a Bill though :-} )
>>At least Entity Framework leap-frogged a couple of versions so that it is now also EF 4.0 ......