Hi Peter,

define "succeed." Will they achieve the compatibility aimed for? Sure: as others note in their replies, they have demonstrated the ability to do what others have said could not be done. For example, it will have ASELOBJ(), which I was told by MS could not be had in .Net. Now, Frank Camp whomped up a version in 2 weeks a vew years ago, when I bemoaned this loss of functionality (think: Builders), so I knew it could be done. Now we will not only have it, but will be able to use it from a VFP Command Window before writing the Builder in VFP code.

As for John's point that .Net is a moving target: I think that misses the point of the eTechnologia effort. What is built is CLS-compatibile, which means it can interoperate with any or all of .Net, without any special effort. Need to access Azure classes: no problem -- they can be accessed directly within your VFP code. So, as .Net moves, your VFP program compiled to .Net moves with it. Your access to it will be simplified, and you will be able to write VFP classes that encapsulate (wrap) this .Net functionality, so you can simplify your access to .Net functionality to what you need: that's the VFP way of things.

Support from the VFP community is key. It's coming: there have been nearly 2,000 views of the little YouTube video I made of the first release of the VFP Developer Studio for .Net. The length (and energy) of this discussion is another good sign: VFP developers are taking the effort seriously, whatever they think or know about the product.

More amazing things (I'll be getting out a Command Window alpha video soon) are on the way, based on what Samuel indicates to me. Amazing things have been delayed, however so far they have continued to arrive.

Hank

>Thanks to Steve Stamm for his useful thread on the current health of the FoxPro commuinity: "How many are left?"
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>I'm asking a related question. Most everyone here is aware of the remarkable efforts of the eTecnologia group to create a compiler from FoxPro code to dot-Net p-code.
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>http://www.etecnologia.net/index.htm
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>I would like to hear some gut reactions on their chances of creating a reliable (mission-capable) product.
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>Do they have a shot?
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>Peter