Hi, Tracy.
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>My personal opinion (and that is all it is) is that it was allowed for that small period of time due to the times when a form for instance that was done in VFP7 would not even open up in VFP8 in development mode so the programmer would have to open the form up in VFP7 and modify the offensive code so VFP8 would accept it and allow the developer to open the form.

Just want to point that AFAIK there is nothing you can do in VFP 7 that prevents you to open a form in VFP 8. Maybe you can find something which can prevent you from opening a VFP 8 form in VFP 7, but there is not much. Of course there are lots of things you can do in VFP 8 that would prevent the form from running, or even compiling, but you'll most probably open it in VFP 7 without much troubles.

Regards,