This is really fantastic Ken! Now I can build a demo app to demonstrate VFP8's capabilities to our management to justify the purchase of it! The new capabilities don't mean much to management (they don't understand the terminology at all), but SEEING IS BELIEVING!

Tracy

>http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/release.asp?ReleaseID=44987
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>Visual FoxPro 8.0 beta
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>The Microsoft Visual FoxPro 8.0 Beta includes all you need to write, build, and test Visual FoxPro 8.0 applications. Product highlights include structured error handling, a CursorAdapter class for universal data access, Windows XP Themes support, new base classes and controls, new event binding for objects, full hierarchical support, new XML Web services features, updated OLE DB provider, improved development productivity, and new and improved compatibility with Visual Studio .NET and SQL Server 2000.