Thanks Sergey. Seems like a "doc bug" would be a pretty easy fix! Oh well, I guess it turned me on to "EXECSCRIPT".

>It's a doc bug that macro substitution is listed as supported in VFP OLE DB provider. It is not supported in VFP OLE DB providers, including the latest one.
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>>The documentation for vfpoledb9 says that it supports macro substitution. My experience with accessing any (DBC) stored procedures that contains macro substitution from .net - causes a "feature is not available" error.
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>>It does appear, however, that EXECSCRIPT seems to work (which I believe gives me a workaround).
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>>I suppose this is just FYI (unless someone has some macro substitution success to report).
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