Hi Robert - been wondering if I would hear from you.

>The introductory video from yer man Bill was good, along with the demos - although the applause from the video audience every so often made me cringe (along with others I suspect): must be a cultural thingy.

Generally regarded as an infomercial over here (ore-rehearsed audience).

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>The Scottish Regional bloke (sorry, Keith, can't remember the full title) stressed VFP as the middle tier tool of choice especially for reporting / wharehousing and pointed out the basis of ADO, etc., plus VFP's sheer speed.

Interesting and different from my experience that he emphasized VFP as he did. Didn't happen over here. Good sign for you.

>Emphasis here was strongly on the Web development features with explanations of the Fat- and Thin- client models/implementations: I think I'm now even more confused over which route to take for data access / web-clients - I'm suffering from ADO (Acronym Definition Overload) I think: [opinions welcomed...on data access rather than my mental health].

Yeah there has been some discussion of that here on the UT. General consensus seems to be that ADO would be a great way to go if there was an easy way to refer to the data set in the ControlSource. I seem to remember someone mentionning that there is a plan to have a service pack update or an upgrade VFP 7 taht would allow an ADO record set to be placed in a view which would accomplish this. Would be great! Why can't we have it NOW (Start whine/pout sequence):-)

>The Visual InterDev session was packed - probably everyone was there. The presenter was knowledgable and extremely clear: 5/5/5 on my ratings. His recommendation seemed to be to use ADO for data access along with COM objects (I think??!!).

Yep the Interdev session was fascinating. Found it very informative

>Windows CE had an additional session at the end - didn't attend but there seemed to be a lot of interest - especially with Adaptive Server Anywhere now available, with synchronisation, etc., to central site(s).

Don't remember anything on CE being done in Calgary anyway. Did they say if VFP can run on it?

>Result - I'll be buying VS6 Enterprise (...The Next Generation?). Hmmm...maybe the sales pitches were slicker than I thought...
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>Thanks, as ever, for letting me ramble on.

No problem. Interesting ramblings always welcomed. Sounds as if you had a typical turnout for the VFP session and overall good Devdays experience. Thanks for taking the time to keep us informed.

- Bruce -