>Our company is currently rewriting our VFP7 application in .NET. While we believe moving to .NET is a good idea for the future of the company, we don't want to entirely drop our VFP experience. Our application has a number of our supporting apps that handle data exchange with other systems, we plan to leave them in VFP.
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>My question to you is that are there plans to improve on the communication between Europa and .NET? And is having these 2 languages running side-by-side in the grand scheme? For example, XMLTOCURSOR should create multiple cursors if the originated ADO.NET dataset has multiple datatables (does it do that in VFP8?). I didn't see anything about this in the November newsletter you wrote.

When you post a message to me on the UT, be sure it goes to me directly and not All to be sure I see it. To answer your question, VFP 8.0 handles XML from VFP to and from ADO.NET very well using the new XMLAdapter class (with mutliple data tables). We are doing some enhancements to Europa to improve a bit in this area, but all backward compatible to VFP 8.0 so it won't change the approach when upgrading to Europa. For more information about the XMLAdapter and other new VFP 8.0 features, check out the articles at http://code-magazine.com/focus/vfp/.