>>>>1. I don't know what user groups and conferences Microsoft took over. In fact by the time .NET rolled out they were getting out of UG and conference support, not into it. For a number of years DevCons were bankrolled by Microsoft. That stopped sometime near the end of the 90s and FoxPro Advisor magazine took up the role.
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>>>Just for the records: During Advisor's FoxPro devcon in Fort Lauderdale many years ago, everyone was told in the opening session that the agenda was changed. There would be NO sessions about VFP, everything would be about dotNet which still wasn't released at that point, if I remember correctly. I got so upset and mad that I considered to sue Advisor for all my costs for this devcon, which in total was about 3000-4000 USD. And it did not give me any good feeling for the "new religion" either.
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>>That's just not true. First, the episode you're talking about was in Miami in 2000, not Fort Lauderdale in 2002. What actually happened was that the conference was a day longer than previous conferences and that entire _extra_ day was about .NET. The other days of the conference contained the usual VFP content. For the record, at the Miami conference, I presented "Getting Started with Office Automation," "Automating Microsoft Word," and "New Language Features in VFP 7."
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>I may be wrong about the place, and I may be wrong about some details. But a lot of the VFP sessions were in deed canceled, which was what upset me very much. The conference was hijacked without any warning and without any compensation whatsoever.

That never happened at any conference I was part of, which covers nearly all the VFP conferences in North America over the last decade plus.

What did happen in 2000 (which I described above) was a surprise (even to those of us involved) and left a lot of people with a sour feeling.

Tamar