>Yeah, you're saying that native VFP data commands would have to be mapped internally to system.data.ado.

Nope, thats not what I'm saying, and I agree, most solutions are a horrible idea. I'm saying that with the CLR, we'd have a native data access mechanism, it just woudln't be VFP DBFs. The syntax to me is really superficial at that level.

>Whether it can do the equivalent of macro expansion and the speed cost of that is another story.

Sounds like an overall theme with teh CLR *eg*

>I'd like to see an actual explanation somewhere. Let me know if you find one.

Ok, but I'm sure you've done alot more research than I have with all things .NET.