Hello Vinod, Visual Studio ships with 5.0a (which is now upgraded with the SP2 for Visual Studio) as for an Arabic version - a Hebrew version of VFP 5.0 is available, since most of the BIDI (BiDirectional) API is identical (if not all of it) MS should have no problem releasing an Arabic version of VFP, alas, it seems they chose not to do so (maybe if enough people would demand this..) the good news are that for VFP6.0 the BIDI features would be built in and no special version would be needed, or so we are told by MS Arnon > >Can anybody tell me whether Visual studio is having 5.0a or 5.0, If yes >then, Are there any versions for Visual studios also, so that I can go for >that particular version & be sure that I will get 5.0a. > >Additionally, whenever I ask here in Middle East abt. 5.0a, they are saying >there is no such version here..Maybe they are themselves not sure... > >Can anybody clarify this, I want to actually buy 5.0a, but if there is not >much diff. (price wise) in Visual Studio & 5.0a, I'll straight away go for >that.. >