>>I'm not saying that VFP will use all the available tools...but as time goes >on, it will be able to take advantage of many of them. Some may be through the >use of Wizards (like Visual Modeler) rather than directly.
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>Craig....
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>You are going down a road you do not want to be on. Wizards are one thing. The VM wizards are nothing more than an automation client. The common tools are ActiveX Designers. There is a big difference here. I have seen nothing to indicate that VFP will support ActiveX Designers. If it does happen great. But, I am not sure I would go on record saying that it might happen. You have no basis in fact to make such a statement.
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>As for using them indirectly, I don't understand that point at all...


John,

It's a simple fact...same arguement that we have for some of the VFP 6.0 features...if VFP wants to survive, it has to play nice with Visual Studio...this will eventually have to expand to the other tools. If things turn out that I'm wrong, I'll be the first to say it. But, until that happens, I'll stand by what I'm saying.