>>>I must have blinked............. my Tastrade source code is not in Tastrade in VFP 8.0.
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>>>Was it removed by MS? If so.... why?
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>>See Behavior Changes Since Visual FoxPro 7.0 -> Removed Items in VFP8 help.
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>This may have discussed before, but was a reason given for it's being left out?

In addition to Sergey's reply, my guess is they already had a Northwind Access and SQL Server DB and it was just easier to make and maintain that into a VFP sample solution/DB. Not to mention the ability to use the same DB to demo how easy it is to upsize from VFP to SQL Server.