>> Seems to me that it is OLE DB that is the *latest* thing, so I see *it*, and not VFP, as being the thing which should support VFP DBCs and DBFs "natively" and not through ODBC. That was/is my point - not criticising VFp but rather MS' OLE DB folk.

Maybe on Planet Nelson that might happen. Empirically MS has never made supporting VFP in their other products a priority. If its going to happen, the Fox team will have to do it. Native support for a certain data source sort of goes against what OLEDB is all about anyway. The idea is that OLEDB is a new data access technology and if data supplier X wants to play, they have to create a provider. OLEDB is not limited to just table based data.

Who actually does it especially since we're just talking different MS divisions doesn't really matter much though.

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