Yag,
I am sorry that you are catching so much flak for the VFP announcement. The expression "Don't kill the messenger" was born for a reason. Unfortunately, being the bearer of bad news isn't a very enviable position. Don't take it personally, people need to vent and you are an easy target, that's all. Don't let > 1% ofthe community get to you, the other 99% of us greatly appreciate your hard work and dedication to the product and community. Many thanks for your past, present, and future contributions to not only VFP but those of us also in the dotnet world.

I really don't want to call people whiners but if the tear stained hankerchief fits.... Come on folks, did this move really surprise anyone? As much as I love VFP, it was the right call. In a few short years we will be in a 64bit world and the fox doesnt live there.

We as an ISV are going to squeeze every drop out of the Fox that we can but we started the migration to .Net a while back. I am really looking foward to orcas and LINQ has me all hot and bothered. I really hate VFP dying but I think .Net 3.0 might be an equitable trade. For the past few years our apps have been modelled to work with the same class design whether it be .Net or VFP. There in lies my biggest gripe with VFP, it promoted really bad coding practices (in my opinion, which yes, i know is mine and mine alone, lol). Using a form's data environment, weak typing are just a couple of issues. Upgrading apps written by other vfp dev's borders on masochistic. I cringe when i see 300 lines of code in a command button. Where .net does not alleviate this problem it does not make it as easy to do as in VFP.

I think therein lies the crux: People have gotten so entrenched in writing "fast and dirty" code that it can be spooky to move to a new platform. People can fear change but the move to .Net from VFP is only as big as you make it. I am not trying to say we should all move to .Net but it was the thing to do for me. I love it. Maybe now is the time for others to start looking at new platforms.

Folks, like every other lifeform on the planet, we as programmers either evolve or die. VFP isn't dead yet and apps will be viable for years to come but if you haven't broadened your skillset yet then this is the time. In closing I would like to say C# > VB.

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