>This is actually in reaction to the answer of Alison from MS during the Online Chat re: VFP 6.0 feature:
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>Q. Security on FoxPro tables has been requested since 1.02. Will security on tables ever be added?
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>A. Answer from AllisonK_MS_ms:
>Most likely not. If you would like security we suggest moving your data to SQL Server.
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>Why the need to acquire SQL Server if it is not necessary? What we badly needed is that MS should put a Password to open a Database/tables to avoid hackers to hack the data. It's all, but marketing strategy!!! Grrrrr.....


Marketing plays a part, but there are other things too. VFP has to be a good player in Visual Studio and many of the items that are put in VFP 6.0 are just for that. Along the same lines, there are many things that people have been asking to have for years that aren't there (ex: OOP menus & reports). I suspect that we'll see some common things in Visual Studio for doing this and that's why the VFP team hasn't addressed them.