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...but as always, new features are coming to improve various areas of the product for data access.Thanks Ken, I'm very glad to hear this!
>WinFS is for the Longhorn operating system timeframe, while Europa is going to release late this year. I only pointed you to WinFS since it related to your topic of a future way of accessing data. Europa will access DBF/DBC/SQLServer/remote data the same basic way VFP 8.0 does but as always, new features are coming to improve various areas of the product for data access.