>I would like to use mixed case method and property names. Why does VFP insist making them lower case? Is there some innane reason?

Based on what I see in the VFP source code, it has a lot to do with VFP's general case-insensitive nature. In C++, you can have a function called MyFunction, and have another called MYFUNCTION, and they're both distinct functions. VFP makes no such distinction.

VFP7 does allow for case distinction in the COM server typelibs, however.