>Could someone point me in the right direction for programming an interface like the taskpane in VFP8.

The interface is HTML, with the IE web browser control hosted on a VFP form. The HTML is created from mapping XML to HTML via XSLT, but that is not required to create an HTML page. In case you haven't seen it, there is a whitepaper on the TaskPane at http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnfoxgen8/html/vfp8_taskpanemgr.asp