>>Maybe the VFP.net Compiler? Maybe that's why it disappeared? :o)

FWIW, this followup has been posted over at another forum: http://www.sdtimes.com/blog/post/2010/07/19/Microsoft-breaths-life-into-FoxPro.aspx but Doug Hennig has responded saying that Kittyhawk has nothing to do with VFP at all.

Not sure why it's given such attention: Google has App Inventor touted as requiring NO programming knowledge and reportedly being tested by primary school kids, so maybe something usable by we VFP neophytes isn't so special. ;-)

What is really interesting is the reaction from NET developers bemoaning the dreaded "manager with Excel"/Access amateur who writes something that grows and grows and takes over the office, after which a professional rewrite is needed. Perhaps they should regard that as a prototype rather than a disaster ;-) but there's a strong flavor of LUDDITE imho. It's long been predicted that business users will come to dominate app development, just as it became possible to dial our own phones rather than relying on an operator or even to press an elevator button ourselves without causing a disaster. MS made good $ exposing affordable GUI, networking and office apps to the teeming masses and there's no reason why they won't do it again, especially if Google is doing it for mobile which is a plausible threat to MS's OS dominance.