>>From time to time, I pick up the chatter on the Universal Thread relating to the future of Visual FoxPro. Most of the time, the chatter is rather light, and I smile and move on with the task of locating info on the latest crisis. I have been listening for years to the discussions regarding Microsoft’s imminent abandonment of the Fox Pro products and yet the new versions just keep on coming. However, yesterday, a very important client informed me that they had it on authority from Microsoft that VFP was at the end of its life, and that Microsoft would not be supporting the product any longer. This one has the potential of hitting me where it hurts. Is there a definitive answer (preferably from Microsoft) to all of this? I almost didn't even hang this request on the Universal Thread because I don't want to add fodder for the rumor mill. Nevertheless, it would be nice to be able to answer these folks in an informed manner.
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>>Thanks in advance…
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>>John Dennis
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>I think that one of the reasons that this continues to get spread around is M$' lack of involvement in it's Visual Studio classes. I just had a friend attend (just last week, so real recent) a 3 day seminar on VS. I told him that VFP would get no mention and that I'd be surprised if the instructor knew anything about VFP. Guess what, no mention of VFP and the instructor didn't know anything about VFP. Were I a corporate IT professional looking for a tool that I knew MS supported, would VFP make my list? Until MS rectifies this situation, we here at UT will be continually defending VFP as a viable tool to use for software development.
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>Steve

I have a co-worker that took that class and VFP was covered. It is in the manual. It wasn't covered in the class because the instructor knows nothing about it. So, it isn't a problem with the class. I would ask if the instructor was an MCT.