>Ed, thanks for your response. I have similar thoughts.... one thing you said piqued my interest though -- will VFP really have early binding in 7.0? I know we will have some degree of intellisense, but I did not think that that necessarily meant early-binding.
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Yep; needed as a part of interface inheritance; the IMPLEMENTS phrase is included in the Tech Preview version of VFP for defining new classes, and it's necessary for Intellisense to be able to operate to fill in properties and methods of COM objects.

>(sorry for the VFP question on this VB board, folks!)