John,

Good news! What exactly is Hourglass?

Your point about Robert Green is a good one. He does a great job considering what he's up against. Sadly I think his efforts will be of limited use. Several people have been told that there won't be a new VFP exam by MCP staff and it seems like the VFP team was surprised as we were that the 3.0 exam was retired before a replacement was announced.

>From Robert Green as posted in Hourglass....
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>"...VFP will be added to the core
>requirements for the MCSD. There will be 2 VFP exams, one for Desktop apps
>and one for Distributed apps. The Certification folk will make an official
>announcement on this in the next couple of weeks. "
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>Now, for all of the flame mail that Robert gets, I think it would be most appropriate to send a Robert a note of thanks at rgreen@microsoft.com.
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>I can tell you that without his efforts, this would not have been possible.