>>>>>And how much will this set you back?
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>>>>to think they could have had a good development studio by leaving out source safe and vb...
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>>>I was just reading the MS hype on it...it looks like a full install will run only about 2 gigs. I didn't see anything on pricing, but if you add up the parts, you get a pretty big whole...or hole in pocketbook? :~)
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>>come on guys , it is not that bad
>>sure it is very good to MS - les codebase to maintain (the tools will share IDE,add ins etc.)
>>but it is also very good for developers, because it simlifies the sharing of devtools while still maintaining benefiet of specialized tools
>>you can more easliy incoroprate the fast .dll you wrote in c++ with the DB of VFP and deploy it all with on the internet VIneterDEV etc.
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>Perhaps you're right, and we shouldn't yell until we see the cost. Anyway, I think they'll have to price it a lot less than the sum of its parts to get it moving...and likely special upgrade rate for users of any one of the parts...


From what I've been reading...and what little I've seen of the beta, there isn't much there for VFP developers. VFP is not fully integrated.

As for procing, the way I see it happening...and this won't be the case for a few years, is Microsoft charging something like $600 US for Visual Studio, then an additional $200 for the language of choice. Visual Studio will just be the development pieces, form designer, etc., but will be useless without the language to go with it. Of course, Microsoft won't do it this way because it makes sense.

Craig