>Hello!
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>I just was wondering....
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>I've been a fan of the VFP 7.0 Hacker's Guide and have used it for years and still use it everyday (electronic version) for a quick reference guide even though I work alot in VFP 8.0 (and soon VFP 9.0)
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>I know there are some guides out there for VFP 8 and 9 but I was wondering if you or any of the other people that worked on it might be thinking of updating the hacker's guide to VFP 9 ? I know I would be the first one in line for a copy.

Unfortunately, sales of the VFP 7 book were extremely slow, and we can't just the time it would take to revise it.

Just to give you an idea, when Ted and I wrote the original book for VFP 3, we worked on it for 14 months more or less half-time each. The VFP 6 book was 9 months. For VFP 7, we brought on two more authors and make some strategic decisions about what to revise and what to leave as is, and it was still a many month (read: I don't remember how many <g>) project.

The problem is that not only would we have to write about all the new stuff, but we'd need to revisit an awful lot of the existing sections to check for changes, recheck bugs, etc. To justify that time, we'd need to know that we'd sell several thousand, at least.

Tamar