>I don't understand your point. What is more special about the VFP group that is recognized by Microsoft any more than the VB group, the c++ group, the ASP group, etc? I believe the latter would have more presence at Microsoft due to being higher revenue generators. Can you point out specifics?

Well, I know that the VFP community is something they are interested on, but I never got a global or simple answer as to what is more attractive to them, but I can speculate:

It is a community that kept supporting a product for years in a very strong fashion, and where members had traditionally a very low turn-around. The most prominent figures are widely known in the community worldwide, and lasted there for lots of time.

My own appreciation is that maybe the cause of much of this is actually that it is not a very huge community, and the gathering factor could be that most of us always did pretty much the same kind of business database apps (mostly sales, accounting, payroll, etc). This didn't happened in general purpose platforms like VB or VC++.

In the end, I guess it wouldn't be easy to explain, or else the interesting would be elapsed quite some time ago, but it has always been an interesting phenomena. I don't say it is *absolutely* unique, but it captivated Microsoft attention as they started to care more and more about developers communities.

Regards,