>After looking at the differences between FoxPro and other languages, as shown on MSDN, I now think there is some real value in porting VFP's language elements to the CLR (of course, the data engine is out of the question).

Can you give some examples of what language features we need?

>If that day comes, I will definitely miss native cursors. I wonder if VB developers use ADO recordsets to data-drive applications? It doesn't seem as appealing under those circumstances.

I dunno, one possibility is XSLT with XML. For example, I wrote a thing called FoxMessenger that I built this menu system for. The menus are compeltely XML driven, so if I get some XML from a Web Service, I just XSLT that to look like menu XML and pass it along to the menu system and it gets built there.