>http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/productinfo/roadmap.asp
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>Its entitled "Microsoft Developer Tools Roadmap 2002–2004" and it is on the MSDN site, but contains no mention of Fox. I know its talking mainly about VS, which fox is no longer a member of, but why no mention about how it can interact with VS through web services?

At the start of that document, it clearly states "This document contains a summary of Microsoft's plan for Visual Studio .NET and the .NET Framework over the next two releases." That should clarify it for you, that the document is about VS .NET only and not other developer products (including VFP).