>>This is not to say that VFP shouldn't be used for front ends, and even sometimes for backends. It is to say that right now in Visual Studio, VFP competes for attention with every other product. If VFP is pigeon holed for middle tier by Microsoft, then it very well may get more attention form Microsoft simply because it is not competing with the other products.
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>>Basically, I guess I'm saying, so what?
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>At least the recognize that it has some purposes... Of course, I have heard that the Apartment Model Multi-Threading under MTS does not work properly, and may not even at release time... Seems if they want people to use VFP for middle-tier, it should work with their own transaction server/middleware.
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>BOb

Bob,

The VFP6 problem with MTS is that there can only be one instnce of a VFP oibject at a time. This own't be changed in VFP6 but the promise is taht it will fixed in the next version. These new technologies come a little at a time.

You can still use VFP for middle tiers though, just not very well with MTS.