>One of our favorite presenters, Eric Selje is coming in from Madison to practice his Southwest Fox Conference presentation.
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>Here is Eric's topic description: Lightswitch is Microsoft's latest development tool and it is aimed squarely at the same market who may have considered Visual FoxPro in the past. Lightswitch creates beautiful Silverlight applications which can run on Windows or the Web (and theoretically Linux too).
>If you're creating CRUD applications for databases, you should definitely have Lightswitch on your radar.
>You will learn:
>• How to get started with Lightswitch
>• The fundamentals of Silverlight
>• The limitations of Lightswitch as compared to Visual FoxPro
>
>Time will be 5:30 Date: Oct 11 Place: Tech Nexus 200 S. Wacker Suite 1500 in Chicago. To RSVP, simply email bill.drew@sbcglobal.net and he will forward the names to Tech Nexus.

Hi Randy,

Unfortunately I will not be there tonight -- am not there now, I should say -- because I am in St. Louis. I am intrigued by the comment that Lightswitch is aimed squarely at the same market who may have considered VFP in the past. After having attended a couple of presentations on Lightswitch at .NET events, one by the guy at Microsoft who is responsible for the product and formally launched it a couple of months ago, that is not my impression. LS seems aimed at power users (with some assistance needed from a real developer) but IMO those people can't develop VFP apps. If you go back to dBASE and FoxPro versions 1 and 2, sure, but not VFP. If it isn't too much to ask, could you follow up with what Eric actually says on this topic? Thanks in advance if you can.