Thanks Ken

I know it is extremely early, but what if any types of VFP style data features can we expect. I saw LINQ and while the c# people are really psyched, I not sure if I am.

The system I wrote in VFP uses the Scan and Local engine to walk small to medium datasets (10,000 - 500,000) to find transactional anomalies (credit debit card improper card usage (Fraud) and even with what is new in SQL server 2005 it is still to hard to do. I am keeping a close eye on what is planned for the ORCA timeframe. That is when we are planning to do a major update.

We will be shipping the VFP 9.0 by year end though.

I for one appreciate all that you are doing to keep VFP moving forward.

And although me head tells me to use c#, a demo like what Andres gave convinces me that VB is the more data centric way to go...

jp


>>Just curious, in your letter you say that part of sedna is written in VB. Well VB.NET or VB 6 ??? :)
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>Probably VB 9.0, which is the version of VB after VB 2005. VB 2005 will be released in a few weeks (as part of VS 2005). VB 9.0 is a kind of code name of the version of VB for Orcas (the code name for the version of VS after VS 2005, slated for the first half of 2007 - same as Sedna). This way we can use all the new data-centric language features in VB 9.0, and then give out the source code of those Sedna components, etc. Refer to those 2 video interviews/demos I linked to that are on Channel 9, and the content at the new web site http://msdn.microsoft.com/vbasic/future/. Note that the .NET term has been dropped from many things now, except ADO.NET and ASP.NET. So now VB (from Microsoft) would refer to the latest version of VB being VB 2005.