>>We just got back from the DataChannel XML xDevDays. Amazingly, Visual FoxPro even got mentioned in the keynote. In fact, Visual FoxPro got mentioned more often than any other Microsoft development tool. And believe it or not, Visual Basic didn't even get mentioned once! This, of course, leads to the following question:
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>>IS VISUAL BASIC DEAD?
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>SET TONGUE IN CHEEK
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>Oh no not another VB is dead rumour. :-)
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>All of my clients say:
> - VC++ is for hard core processing where performance is key
> - VFP is for database
> - VI/J++ are for web apps
>where does this leave VB?
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>Clients have also discovered:
>- BASIC stands for Beginner's All Purpose Instruction Code (this causes doubt in its ability as a "professional tool"
>- VB doesn't have a built in database and must rely on VFP, Access or SQL Server
>- they are worried that the VB OOP implementation is not complete
>- that VFP is SQL based and can be deployed inexpensively on a file server with millions of records of data with 100's of users with subsecond access times and that VB is much more expensive to deploy because of its dependence of SQL server for large datasets
>- there are few Visual Basic user groups
>- few Visual Basic web discussion groups that come close to VFP ones (Universal Thread, Compuserve)
>- the November 1998 issue of the Visual Basic Programmers Journal features an VFP add. An obvious signal to VB programmers that VB is dead that that VFP is the future
>- there has been no announcement of VB7, yet VFP7 has been shown at Devcon and in Vancouver
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>SET TONGUE IN CHEEK OFF

Good one, Evan! Hmm, maybe Markus is on to something < beg >.