>Compiling to the CLR would come with costs- as you know VB.NET completely breaks backward compatibility. I don't think that the VFP community wants this.

Peronally, I am ready for it.

>I think that they are being diplomatic, and waiting for us to decide ourselves that we really don't want it.

I hope not.

>After all- if you want a language that looks/acts/works like VB, why aren't you using VB?

No offense, but I think this is a completely faulty assumption. VC++, C# and VB will not look/act/work the same under CLR. VB do points well, VC++ will be difficult to use...