Roderick,

Glad to know you were there. I also attended the devdays together with our solutions director and another programmer.

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>A quote from the MSDN Regional speaker “…there are 50,000* who develop in Visual FoxPro around the world and 49,000 of them are in the Philippines”.

My understanding is that he did say *IF*, emphasizing that in the Philippines, there are more VFP users than the totality of VFP users in the world.

> Most VFP developers I’ve talked to were slightly offended by this remark. The message being “You guys are the last bastion of VFP holdouts, get along with the rest of the world and program with VB”. He also mentions that VFP is good for legacy applications written in dBase II, III, IV, foxBase and Clipper. He also should have added that VFP is good for creating NEW applications that need fast database performance that do not need high end solutions like SQL Server.
>* His figure for VFP developers around the world is obviously wrong, this goes to show his lack of knowledge about the VFP community (and probably the product as well).

Certainly, and besides organizers are none Microsoft but only MS solution providers indicating there ignorance about what's really happening on VFP community.

>4. A little over 120 attended the Visual FoxPro 6.0 session. The Microsoft coordinator in the session was surprised at the (relatively) large turnout. He asked how many were using VFP 5 and around two-thirds raised their hands. The VB session had over 350 attendees.

Wihout that 'Fata error..' occured, the VFP session should have been the most applauded session than Office/VB, VI etc. We didn't attended VC, VB anymore.

>5. A lot of VFP developers (including myself) are going learn VB not because we want to but because we HAVE to. VFP however will still remain our primary tool.
>6. Some VFP developers (including myself) will study Visual Interdev because it something we are interested in learning.

It should be. There are strong and weak points on every programming tool that's why MS formed Visual Studio.

>7. Quite a number of VFPers are unaware of the Universal Thread so I gave them the URL for them to visit.

That's true. Even the VFP team are unaware to my surprise.

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