>Just an update please. I understand in the past it was not possible to invoke a VFP "stored procedure" with an ADO EXECUTE but is that still the case? Does anyone know if there have been any progress in this area?

As Mike said, SPs are only executed as part of a trigger. The OLE-DB provider for VFP which will allow all SP execution is available in the VFP 7 beta (which should be released next year).