>Hi James
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>I have not been following this thread but your message was shown to me when I logged in so I did read it.
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>What is happening in this thread and other threads that came up before is, IMO, I feel that the VFP community is taking it, most probably unconsciously, personally. Just becuase VFP has been mis-treated / mis-represented does not mean it will stop having users all of a sudden, in fact hopefully we will start earning more as there are lot of VFP products out there which will want to be maitained and as the big lot will be in .NET and other languages, the demand and supply rule just might kick in.
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I agree that the use of .Net does not mean the end of Foxpro. I have been advocating that in several posts.

>I have seen a major hospital in India using DOS based app on which it running as efficiently, just becuase the OS was Windows does not mean even the older xBase applications are dead, the beautiful VFP still has a long way to go support or no support.
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>Actually these threads should be where they belong in the .NET forum. People following VFP and .NET forums are the target audience. The Only VFP forum watchers are the Die-Hard kind of people, they are not going to shift, no not yet. Thus such threads, to an already badly shaken community with such rumors, are taken as a personal insult.
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>Putting such threads here are basically an insult to the community. A community to which these same announcers were a major part and also benefactors of and from VFP.

Here lies my disagreement. I have included this in other posts on this topic as well. People who use VFP is the target audience. While it IS named VFPConversion, it does extend the skill set of FoxPro developers.

I will iterate my case. I don't use .Net on a daily basis, in fact not really at all. Therefore, I have no reason to go to the .Net secion of this forum. I would never have seen it. I would like to learn about .Net and perhaps extend my skill set to include some .Net knowledge. This does not mean I will replace FoxPro with .Net. .Net cannot do, easily, what we do with FoxPro daily and moving our entire operation to .Net would make no sense at all. Meaning that, by attending the seminar, means in no way that I will shift away from FoxPro.

I especially appreciate hearing of a .Net seminar that is being taught by a VFP developer. This is no inslut to the community, simply an announcement by a man who wishes to extend a VFP developer's skill set.

Aloha,

James