I agree about the VFP developers not having a general interest. There are ISV's with applications for which they can save a huge amount of effort by using the product, and those will be a natural. There are probably a few hundred of those in the world. And you are right, the viral campaign is aimed at non-VFP developers, at all levels.

And, of course, you don't give up .Net when using the product; you just have a easier, more flexible way of using the .Net resources.

>>I've actually heard from the lead developer in mid-December, but his prediction of a release the next week did not come true. I'm not sure what the hangup is: the major pieces to be implemented are down to the grid and rushmore (the latter being the key to making SQL Select work effectively against DBF's, including their new 64-bit dbf's). The other functionality is pretty much all there, including cursoradapters (at least the class is there, and supposedly they work for some scenarios). It would be a real shame if they were to fail this close to the finish line. That's the main point that gives me hope: they are this close. In addition, they have a dynamite marketing plan that will ensure they become known to all sorts of non-VFP developers, and it's something they have a capacity right now to carry out, without additional resources.
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>A dynamite marketing plan?
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>They'll have to ensure they are known by all sorts of non-VFP developers since they've missed that opportunity (to market to VFP developers) pretty much completely by now. Then they'll have to convince non-VFP developers that there is some reason to use their VFP syntax rather than the incredibly broad and powerful .NET framework that has been building for almost a decade.
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>I assume the VFP compiler isn't their day job since they have no communications or marketing to speak of, and since their progress seems to be extremely slow. I think they'll be able to count paying users on their fingertips if it is released.
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>BTW I was excited about it a couple of years ago. I really was.
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>>>>So far as I know, the VFP Compiler for .Net runs on Mono now; or at least it did as of last Spring (at which time I believe it was actually being developed on Mono).
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>>>>As for whether it will be completed: who knows? Do you have information on this issue?
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>>>No information is coming from the people behind the VFP Compiler for .Net for a long time. That's one of the reasons I think it's not going to be complete anywhere soon