>>Microsoft does not have plans to merge VFP into Visual Studio and .NET, but instead we are working on adding as many great features found in VFP into upcoming versions of Visual Studio.
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>Simple data binding as VFP's ControlSource.

There is significant new databinding features on controls in Visual Studio 2005. Some (but not all) information about VS 2005 databinding can be found at http://msdn.microsoft.com/vs2005/teams/winforms/techpreview/default.aspx. More general resources about what is coming in VS 2005 can be found at http://msdn.microsoft.com/vs2005/resources, and the general home page for the VS 2005 Preview is at http://msdn.microsoft.com/vs2005.