>I was reading an editorial on Les Pinter's web site called The River Goat that relates to this subject. He says that Jeffrey Richter (of MSFT) told him that VFP is the only Visual Studio language that doesn't compile to Intermediate Language code. Does anyone here know what that is?

I'm not exactly sure what Jeffrey meant by that. Basically, there are three types of program execution: 1. Native Code (directly executable by the processor); 2. P-Code (tokens representing the offset of the machine executable code in a run-time library); and 3. Interpreted (ASCII text that's translated at runtime). P-Code is sometimes referred to as an "Intermediate Language". Does VFP use P-Code, yes and so do many other products. So I'm not sure what's meant here.