I just downloaded the PDF yesterday, so have not yet gone through everything,

Chapters 1, 6 and 15 are on-line as sample chapters at:
http://www.hentzenwerke.com/samplechapters/zsamplechapters.htm

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>Does the book include coverage of those things introduced by the SPs after VFP6.0's initial relaease?
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Didn't see anything about the SP's and V6

>Does the book cover mainly improvements in the interface, or does it also cover exploitation of the new application-related stuff like Web Services, SOAP, XMLUPDATEGRAMS, and those things documented as "for advanced programmers"?
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Chapter 15, Working With Web Services include a tutorial on XML, a discussion of the VPF XML functions with about 5 pages about XMLUPDATEGRAMS for .DBF and SQL-Server tables.

There is stuff about SOAP.

Here is the link for the TOC on their web site.
http://www.hentzenwerke.com/catalogavailability/newin7table.htm