>>>Thanks, Bill...that's exactly the problem. No, I haven't upgraded past 5.0a, haven't heard of a reason for doing so -- until now :) The latest SP is at the MS vfoxpro site?
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>>Yeah, bit me too. :-) Visual Studio SP3 is somewhere on vfoxpro site, or maybe MSDN site, but I'm not sure exactly where. I loaded it from MSDN Cd's we get. I think you have to get the whole Visual Studio SP3. :-(
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>Oh...Can you install it without VS, I wonder?

Yep. I have only VFP and VB on my machine. Just run Setup. It goes out, finds installed components, then installs what it needs to ( if you can trust MS :-) )