>>So as well as offering the sessions, M$ needs to market/promote the incentive >>as to why these sessions would be beneficial to attend or else why would >>anyone attend.

Those sessions were marketed as much as the other sessions. Are you saying that MS should have given special treatment to the VFP sessions. I ask you, would it have made a difference to you? Would you have gone based on the technical content of the abstracts, or based on how much the sessions where advertised? Or, would you have gone at all????

The bottom line line is that 10 sessions where offered, attendence sucked. A bunch of folks here are complaining that there are no VFP sessions. Yet, in the past the sessions where there. NOBODY ATTENDED. Folks never seemed satisifed. At some point, folks need to look in the mirror and take a reality check.

In the end, VFP is a great tool, and clearly is the odd-ball out when it comes to fitting in with the other tools. SO WHAT. It gets the job done, and done well. Nobody should ever box themselves in knowing one tool. That is plain crazy. Languages come and go, it is an evolutionary process. But, prepared developers stick around.