>>>>>>Does anyone know if the new Ole Db Provider is available apart from actually purchasing the product?
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>>>>>For now you can get it only with VFP 7.0
>>>>>I would expect it to be available as separate download later on.
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>>>>Not according to some posts by MS people here. Apparently there is a reason why the VFP ODBC driver is not in MDAC anymore and if I was to speculate the OLEDB provider will not make there it either.
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>>>Where did I say in my post that it'll be a part of MDAC?
>>>I sad "as separate download". The same way as VFP ODBC driver is now available as a separate download from MS VFP site. And MS people never sad that it wouldn't happend.
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>>Well, I did a search at msdn and came up with nothing, would you care to post the url where the VFP ODBC driver is at?
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>http://msdn.microsoft.com/vfoxpro/downloads/odbc.asp

Another one for the "conspicuous omissions dept" :). I did the search on msdn downloads and it's not there. It's only under the VFP home page.