>>Ken,
>>
>>Great letter. I also tried to learn VB when I first got scared about the "death" of VFP. I reached the same conclusion as you and am back in Fox camp.
>>
>>Now. Like you, I also have to port a FPD app to VFP and
>>would welcome your suggetions and any shortcuts you find.
>
>I wonder whether FoxPRo will end up as a Database
>Server... Maybe one day we will be writing stored procedures
>using FoxPro commands and functions, SKIPing here and there.
>
>Rushmore is a query manager kind of things...

Since MS just changed the default engine of Access to SQL Server, and SQL Server 7. will run on a Win 9x machine, I think that the VFP db engine will stay in VFP, and may be replaced itself someday.

David