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>>I think that as far as we could go with this is a Business object framework for building COM objects. (VB will only support inheritance for non UI classes, and even if it supported inheritance for UI components, what good would that do a VFP developer, and vice-versa?)
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>VB will only support inheritance for non-UI objects?

This is the only type of inheritance that has been announced. The plans call for the ability to define your own base class, and subclass from there...