>>>>>years ago I had to implement FTPS and SFTP to big iron instances and
>>>>>wwIPStuff back then could not do that.
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>>>Ditto... but a more recent WW version includes the wwSFTP class; to cover both, we also implemented FTPS via Craig Boyd's vfpconnection.fll.
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>>Yupp, I always recommend to check the current capabilities of the package Rick offers.
>>Up next is a tossup of buying from other (relatively) small vendor or look in Dotnet...
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> or look in Dotnet...
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>They're built into .NET.
>This is probably a newbie question but can .NET code be easily run from VFP?

Define easy.

Check this years VirtualFoxFest. Rick Strahl had a great session about it. It's available to the VFP comunity.
https://virtualfoxfest.com/Sessions.aspx