>This is really kind of funny - I don't see a connection with any of the legacy vfp app. It says the dbf is being replaced with SQL and a web app and web services are being created with vs.net? How is the connection being achieved? Would it kill Microsoft to admit some web services are being created with vfp??? Or do you just mean they're still using vfp in the background somewhere and there's no integration at all? The whole thing is kind of confusing...

They are using VFP COM DLLs objects being called from ASP.NET, and ASP.NET is being used for the XML Web services. This is the technique that we recommend and the way most solutions seem to be being built when XML Web services and VFP is involved. I think it is very rare to have XML Web services created with VFP without ASP.NET as a wrapper around the VFP DLL. Hanging a VFP DLL directly on HTTP via a VFP XML web service is not typical, maybe just FoxCentral.net is an exmaple which is not a typical VFP application. Having ASP.NET act as the XML web service and then calling the VFP DLLs offers far more flexibility and scalablity.