Jim...

There have been two versions of Visual Studio. VFP has been part of both versions. Once again, there were 10 sessions in 1998 and NOBODY attended. Those sessions where promoted AS MUCH as the other sessions.

Please defend the following statement:

VFP sessions, which nobody attends despite being promoted as much as the other sessions, should go on at the expense of other sessions that people will attend.

Jim, there are VB, VI sessions that get cancelled due to lack of attendence. It just so happens that every VFP session falls into this category. Ergo, every session gets dropped. As far as marketing, I would agree that TechEd is partly a marketing event. Maybe you could say that 50% of it is marketing. Still, the amount of sessions per time slot is finite. The other 50% of the show is technical. And based on that, MS is compelled to provide content that folks want to see. The demand has not been there to justify the cost of putting on VFP sessions.

If VFP never had sessions at TechEd, both you and Nick would have a defensible point. Your first point, that VFP was not part of Visual Studio, is flat out wrong. When VFP 3 was out, VS never existed. VS was introduced when VFP 5 came out. That is when they sync'd up the version numbers between VB, VFP, VC, VSS, etc.

If however, we go on your theory about having the sessions, because it is the correct thing to do from a marketing standpoint, let me ask you this. What good is a marketing message that nobody will hear? Last year, the attempt was made with 10 sessions, yet, nobody showed up. Clearly, nobody is interested. Nobody is crossing over from VB to VFP, even for a portion of thier development. Why then, have the sessions?