Hi Bill,

I'll address each of these under the questions for readibility sake:

>This message is for those of you who were lucky enough to attend this year's FoxTeach. The rest of you, go get a cup of coffee. :)
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>How was the conference? I've never been there, so I don't know if it is in the same vein as DevCon. How does it compare to DevCons of the past? It's too late for me to go to Devcon this year, but for next year, if I had to choose to go to only one FoxPro conference, which would you recommend? (I'll probably ask the same question in June, after DevCon)

IMO, the conference was great. I was dissappointed when it was cancelled last year but am happy it's back. I can't compare it to DevCon because I've never gone. Like you, I'm on a limited training/education budget so since I work in Toronto and the conference is in Toronto it's pretty much a no-brainer where I'll go each year.

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>I know that Ken Levy's presentation was well-received from the posts here, but how were some of the others? One person who I'm surprised hasn't posted any sort of follow-up was John Peterson. Anyone who attended his sessions, I would appreciate an objective critique, just to see if John is as good as he thinks he is.

From the sessions I attended my favorites, based on finding them interesting and getting something out of them I will actually use, were:

Ken Levy's various XML sessions
Doug Hennig's session on building Developer Tools
Rick Strahl's session on Internet enabling VFP Apps
John Peterson's session on Integrating VFP and Office

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>Bottom line, was the conference worth the expense? I know I always sound like I'm harping on the cost of these things, but with limited resources (time, money, previous knowledge), I have to decide very carefully where my educational budget will be spent. Ask yourselves: if I had to pay for everything out of my own pocket, plus lose the time spent there that I could be using on app development, would I do it again?

Obviously for me it was worth the cost. Maybe others that travelled to the conference can answer this one better.
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>Finally, what sort of rumors (or rumor control) were circulating at the conference? Any news of VFP 7.0, or even a patch for 6.0 to clear up some of the C0000005 crashes? Any comments on the future of VFP, the incessant Fox-is-dead rumors, or any fallout from the aborted VFPDA effort here?

The conference bergan an ended with the phrase "Visual FoxPro Lives!". VFPCOM utility was discussed, which is now available for download. Also an interim release of VFP 6 is coming soon, which most of the presenters already had, which adds a new choice to the project Build for multi threaded com files.

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>Thnaks in advance for the info,
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>Bill Yater