>Can any of you recommend such items as a calendar, a report writer and other useful items that can be used with VFP 3.0 to make life a bit easier??

For calendar, you have a good one in the Files section. When you'll move into Visual FoxPro 5, you won't need a 3rd party product for that since it is now included in the package.

As for report writer, there is always Foxfire which I used last year in one of my project and it does the job pretty well.