I suppose, given the list of people, that most of them knew someone at MS and were able to run their project by them at some point. There's a Sedna category here on this forum that the MS Fox Team watches. To be honest, I'm not sure what the exact steps were that led to the adoption of their tools into the Visual FoxPro source.

I'm looking forward to getting your Project Central up and running and seeing what it does.

>How does a person(s) submit useful tools to the VFP team as these people have?
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>>Yes, open up a form in the class browser and you'll see a hierarchical display of all the objects it contains, as well as methods and properties... just a hint of what could be possible with a new project manager/solution explorer/whatever you want to call it. <g> The neat thing is, that this is well within the realm of something the community could create themselves, and the MS Fox Team has a good track record of incorporating things like this if they're done right and offer a lot of benefit to the community...
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>>http://fox.wikis.com/wc.dll?Wiki~VFPComponentAuthors
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>>>Hi
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>>>>>...if the nodes in the Project Manager were hierchical, like
>>>>>the Class Browser?
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>>>Something better than the All tab in the Project manager, I guess.