>I have a letter from MS offering an upgrade from VFP6 to Visual Studio Enterprise. With the rebate and the Academic price, it's a steal. The offer is good till 12/31/2000.
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>So, should I upgrade now, or use the upgrate to get Visual Studio 7 (or whatever is coming out by next Fall)?
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>The one reason I see to upgrade now is to use Visual Modeler. I am about to start my first "real" OOP project, and the business rules will be complicated, but it is actually a pretty small project, and paper modeling may be enough.
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>Other reasons to have all of Visual Studio is to be able to learn VC++ (haha, once I get VFP down 'pat'!!)
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>I would appreciate all opinions and advice.
Cindy,

Don't overlook SourceSafe, which is part of the Enterprise edition. It is a good tool for version control and if you are the only developer, it help protect you from yourself.

VB object viewer is also useful, however most of its usefulness in also in the VBA editors of Office.

Tom Molloy