>I understand, but that doesn't answer my question. In VFP 8.0 you don't have VarChar, but you can still map it to character filed in a remote view. I am hopping even though there is not a native XML data type in VFP 9.0 (Heck even 8.0) that I will be able to get the XML of an XML data type in Yukon into a VFP character or memo data type field.

To use the new XML features in Yukon such as the native XML data type, XQuery in the .NET Framework, etc., then you will need to use Whidbey. VFP (Europa) will not support that functionality of mapping the VFP memo field to the Yukon XML data type.