Jeff,

>No technical reason was given. I even asked if it was technical or political. I don't recall what session it was but I'm pretty sure it was one of Doug Hennig sessions. He would not answer the question directly, but I was left with the impression that it was political. ADO.net is for CLR langs only. Calvin was sitting in on the session and made no reply. As far as VB6 and others are concerned, I would guess it would be the same. Everyone out side the box would have to use a VB/C#/whatever rapper to have access to ADO.net.

Maybe it's a technical reason that is politically motivated... IOW, cut off the automatic exposure of .NET framework through COM Interop, in order to force people (primarily VB6-ers) to use .NET languages. However, I would NOT read it as a conspiracy against VFP...

At any rate, you might have to create wrappers around the ADO.NET stuff and expose those to COM Interop. Some enterprising soul ought to be able to design something generic that can pass through anything you send to it.

I'm speculating, cuz I don't know anything definite about all of this, although it should become MUCH clearer when .NET Beta2 releases in a few weeks.