>>>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.
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>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????

No I'm not saying M$ should have given special treatment to the VFP sessions. What I'm saying is that M$ should have given *EQUAL* treatment to marketing VFP itself.

Would it have made a difference to me? Would I have gone? No. But you miss my point. I'm not approaching this from a VFP developer point of view but for people who are non-VFP developers and know NOTHING about it either.

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>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.

I'm not complaining that there are no VFP sessions. I'm stating that exclusion of even a few general level sessions is a mistake. Of those that did attend the 10 sessions I'd be willing to bet that most if not all were VFP developers. Why is that? Because past M$ marketing of VFP/FoxPro gives the impression that it is not a useful tool in the VS suite, so why attend the sessions. Look how many times an "Is FoxPro dead?" thread pops up here, imagine the impression non-VFP developers get.

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>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.

I agree completely. So why shouldn't VFP be a another choice for other developers?

Cheers,