>Hi Ed,
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>It is not my area of expertise, but I wonder if VFP stuff providing backward compatibility could be technically separated from newer and better version of VFP and added to the package as separate DLL, so if somebody wanted the backward compatibility then s/he could add this DLL to the project?

This is a new and great wish. I think you should post it as a new thread [as you see fit] to get it out of this thread.