You may notice the comments on improving VB to make it a more desirable choice for middle tier.

>Dear all,
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>Go the the url below and see some description on the next generation of VFP. Some mention of COM, Web Services and middle tier. Hope that MS keep their promises this time around. Again I would like to see support for COM+, all type of ActiveX control, true windows object, callbacks and UI that on par to the VS family.
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>http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/nextgen/language/default.asp
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>Regards,
>Kueh