>>>Does anyone know of any plans on a Vfp 9.0?
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>>For information about Europa, refer to http://msdn.microsoft.com/vfoxpro/letters/11132003/ and http://msdn.microsoft.com/vfoxpro/letters/
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>Were you "guys" able to put some time into "adding" XP-Themes to the ActiveX controls?

What is posted at the links above is what is announced for Europa at this time. For this issue, it is probably best to focus on having the ActiveX control be the component that is responsible for supporting XP themes natively.