>I guess I shall just sit back and watch many many people fondly wish for things and diligently fill out Wish Lists items and continue to trust in VFP "grand plan" when virtually nothing of whats asked for (and therefore NEEDED) is delivered, and then watch all of them make up various excuses as to why this is so.
>We have the tail (MS) wagging the dog (developers), and that's the way people seem to like it. The DoJ might just as well put the suit aside and concede to MS right now!

Just a word of solidarity, Jim. I knew I was disappointed when MS bought Fox - and though it meant the development of several new nice versions, it's not the same anymore. My personal grudge against M$ aside (they owe me several night's work for some undocumented features [read: nasty bugs] back in 1986 Cobol CP/M). It's just M$'s style - they publish an unfinished product, create a niche market for fixers, then buy the best one of them and incorporate it in the next version. Remember PC-Point (Compress, DiskFix, PCTools, PC-Cache), Peter Norton (Commander, DiskDoctor, Ncache), QEMM... they all had their products which fixed the shortcomings of DOS; M$ eventually bought mirror.com from Central Point, defrag.exe from Norton... and here you have Stonefield.

By the end of next year, you may expect SDT to ship within VS :)