>From last 1 month, in a certain Magazine, the ads for Visual Studio mention VB and VFP as the tool for Web and 'data centric' applications.
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>Any increase in ads in your respective countries or just a temporary phemonmenon ?
>
>I personally take it a good development.
>
>Bye,
>
>Rakesh

>From last 1 month, in a certain Magazine, the ads for Visual Studio mention VB and VFP as the tool for Web and 'data centric' applications.
>
>Any increase in ads in your respective countries or just a temporary phemonmenon ?
>
>I personally take it a good development.
>
>Bye,
>
>Rakesh

The need for VFP developers is ever increasing in our country although I would seem to admit that ads about VFP is not yet that significantly improved.

Ads helps but there is no better advertisers than users / developers themselves satisfied on the product.

In DICE.COM, here is the figure I just got about the need for developers:

Visual dBase - 90-100
Clipper - 90-100
Visual Foxpro - 320 - 350
Delphi - 400 - 450
PowerBuilder - 1700 - 1800
Developer 2000 - 1800 - 1900
Visual Basic - 3900 - 4200

If you look at the figures, it is obvious that VB has lots of jobs available due to the following reasons:
1. Lots of VB projects are failure (same case on our country) specifically on database applications.
2. The need for in-house VB developer for maintainance because VB applications are hard to maintain.
3. Prestige feeling by some companies because of MS support.

If I am a publisher of a book and I am only after the *money*, then I will published much on VBs because of lots of developers screwing their heads looking for solutions.