>>>Fred, haven't you missed the point of all this though? If one upgrades to version 8 from version 7, there will be no compiling in any other version than 8. Version 7 must be uninstalled.
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>>Another point: a VFP8 compiled program runs just fine in VFP6/7, just as long as you don't use anything VFP8 specific.
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>Do you personally know that for a fact? Have you fully regression-tested it? For that matter, do you think even Microsoft has? IOW, are you willing to bet your old versions on it? (assuming non-MSDN subscribers, of course)

Nope, I haven't. Currently, it doesn't matter for me, it's only been an amusing side effect that I've played with. Everything I've tried has worked, but that by no means is complete nor exhaustive testing. ;)

My current place of employment wil be updating everything to VFP8 (we currently develop in VFP7 and recompile and deploy in VFP6. We were just too lazy to update the ~400+ workstations to VFP7 runtimes with VFP8 right around the corner.