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Tech-ed Topic Summary; something missing?
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16/03/1999 23:11:12
 
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Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
Conferences & events
Miscellaneous
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00193227
Message ID:
00198428
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>>I thought you said that about 30 people showed up? That is better than nobody.
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>At a TechEd session, 30 people = NOBODY. Remember, TechEd is a conference of 9-10 thousand people. For a session to be viable, you need to pull in a few hundred. Granted, there are some hardcore C++ sessions. Yet, I would bet even those pull in about 75-100 people.
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>>At the last DevCon they said that 10% of the Visual Studio owners where using VFP for the 1st time (what other product they use was not mentioned).
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>Sure. But that stat is irrelevant to whether there should be TechEd sessions on VFP.
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>>Recently at a user group meeting there was a VB guy and he said he took a look at some VFP5 code and thought it was real confusing.
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>Sure..And I bet if you took a bunch of VFP developers who never saw VB code and had them look at a VB app, they would say the same thing....


Actually, my first peek at VB was trying to decipher examples for MapObjects. I didn't think it was very confusing. But, then, I found VFP easy as well.

-Michelle
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