>here in Italy it's 1 o'clock, so sorry for my english, I'm just returning home from an Yes group concert....
>I have downloaded and installed VS.2005 beta (just because I want to "touch with my hand") and I've used it for only 3 days now, but let me say that for what I've seen this features are really "a lot" of features: it's look like the are cloning VFP into VS.
>I mean, there are:
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>- TableAdapters, which are exactly the same as VFP cursoradapter (in VS you can define more query, and use what you need)
>- In Tools->Options you can define which classes (textbox, combo, ecc.) will be created when you drop table fields from the Data Sources Windows
>- Again, from the Data Sources Windows you can choose if you want to create a grid or single controls when you Drag&drop many fields
>- In the docs they talk about "local data" as a new "data feature" but they talk about Access, MSDE, but vfpoledb is not mentioned
>
>and so on. (For other here, take a look at: http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dv_raddata/html/3d50d68f-5f44-4915-842f-6d42fce793f1.asp)
>Now, it's easy to understand what will happen...
>Let's call it a "VFP's programmers soft conversion" (but obliged) to .NET, or not?

I drove through part of northern Italy a few weeks ago, and around there and Europe I recall seeing posters for the upcoming Yes concert dates in the area.

There is a good quick demo of some VS 2005 databinding features in the newly posted Channel9 video at http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=12819. The Visual Studio team continues to review good data and other features in Visual FoxPro to add to Visual Studio.