I think the problems in Miami were the way it was the way it was presented, or as many said, "shoved down our throats".

>It was a combination of things really. There were no plans for VFP to compile to the CLR, but for a while, the idea was to be able to write VFP code inside the Visual Studio IDE and compile to COM or just native VFP.
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>This was show at DevCon (Miami, I think), and it went over like a lead baloon. The community didn't react very favorably at all (probably because it was not entirely clear what was shown), and in the end, that was probably the kiss of death...
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>To me personally, that was a very big disappointment, because I always thought that VFP should play in the Microsoft arena and not be just a monolithic product. (This also was part of the initial idea for CoDe Magazine for instance). Compiling to the CLR always was going to be difficult for VFP's language structure, but it would have been possible. And, IMHPO, desirable. Unfortunately, only a handful of people (Rick and Kevin for instance, if I remember correctly) shared that opinion though.
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