Hey Steve,

>[snip] But what I was interested in was native VFP7 opening other OLEDB sources; I guess I was expecting an update to the ODBC connector to include external OLEDB providers like MSSQL2K.

Yea, that would've been cool.

>Going through ODBC is definitely going to be slower than OLEDB for my application.

This I don't understand. What is it that you are accessing that you feel OLE DB would be faster than ODBC? OLEDB is an inherently slower technology than ODBC, and there are ODBC drivers for everything you might need.

>So I guess only ADO is married to OLEDB?

Today, yes, you have ADO and the upcoming ADO.NET with an OLEDB managed provider. They are your high-level object models into OLEDB. If you want to be brave, you could code to OLEDB itself, but I'm pretty sure you'd need C or C++ for that.