Hi Bo,

I think most people are resigned to the fact that there won't be future developments, I think most would be happy to have a handful of the worst bugs they introduced in the last service pack fixed and some minimal feedback to the community. I would never treat my customers like that.

Bob


>Why lament VFP? Many people have been waiting for the other show to drop for years. Well it's dropped and it ain't all bad. In fact, it might be the best thing that's happened.
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>Microsoft has given us enough hooks into VFP to do just about anything we want. And they have even given us a centralized forum for continuing to improve the product (www.codeplex.com/vfpx). This is probably about as close to open source as we are going to get from MS.
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>I realize that some issues were introduced with SP2. But is there any issue in VFP SP2 that doesn't have a workaround? I see more fixes in SP2 than new bugs. If we wait for an SP3 to come out, we might be more dissapointed. We all know what happens when you crack the code open. If there are limited resources for VFP development and they are never going to release the base source code to us, I say leave it alone. Chances are another SP can introduce more issues.
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>I have worked with several different language tools, and VFP9 SP2 has the fewest bugs of any other tool I've worked with and is one of the most extensible. Not just for building add ons to the IDE, but to integrate with other dev tools. We've got dedicated gurus out there, like Rick Strahl and Craig Boyd that have been showing us for years how to combine the best from different dev tools and put them together with VFP to make uber-apps.
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>I would encourage VFP developers not to focus so much effort on trying to force MS to continue the product. Your efforts would probably have a higher yield by focusing on extending the product. Check out VFPX on www.codeplex.com/vfpx and see what is already there and expect a lot more to come. If you can't contribute directly, at least download the projects that are there and provide some feedback to the developers who have donated hours of their time to extend VFP for you...for free. I'm not just saying this because I am one of the project managers on VFPX, but because I know how much it means to get feedback on your efforts, good or bad.
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>And VFPX is not the only place to find extentions for VFP. They are all over the web, including the download section for this web site. If you have ever downloaded a tool or snippet, you should send the person who posted it some feedback. It might encourage them to do more or give them an opportunity to address any issues you found while evaluating it.
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>This message is not directed to Bill. His message just happened to be the one I hit the reply button on.