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>I think everyone is still stunned speachless by all the fabulous new features. :-) It really is quite a remarkable list of meaty new capabilities and user-requested enhancements.

I was speachless when I first saw the list. Frankly, I don't know how the VFP team got so much done in such little time .. unless Calvin has been on vacation the past 18 months *g*.

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>For instance, the ramifications of Try..Catch error handling take awhile to sink in, but represent a major advancement forward. The same is true for Collections, sub-classable Member objects, Data Environment class enhancements, and on and on the list goes.
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>Although it's not applicable to every architecture, I think the CursorAdapter will be very useful for many people, to allow almost transparent cursor access to a variety of data source types, such as XML and ADO.
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>I'm presenting VFP8 to the Atlanta Fox User Group on October 17th, so I'm really looking foward to working out some practical applications of several of these new features.

I'm doing some VFP8 here on Oct 10 and more to follow next month.