>About 30 people is what you had at DevDays a couple years ago in Washington, >DC. The whole idea is exposure. Microsoft's marketing *still* sucks and it >is up to us to educate the masses.

Yet, the other sessions were not marketed any more or less than the VFP session. It is just a fact, those who primarily develop in VFP are not attracted to these events. And, it is clear that MS's goal is to NOT attempt to migrate other development communities to VFP.

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>I understand your reponse to the lack of commitment of VFP. I was thinking from a corporate view and they see all these tools demostrated at TechEd and VFP is not listed so why would I even consider developing in that product. It reminds me of Les Pinter's story of being called into a Fortune 500 companies CEO office and asked why didn't Les tell him that MSFT wasn't behind VFP when there was a full page ad on Visual Studio and VFP was not listed.

My choice of tool is not governed by whether a session is at TechEd or not. Rather, I let the technical merits of the tool drive the decision. To do anything else, makes one a Gartner Group Drone...