>I am sure I will bruise a few egos here...oh well....
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>I decided to run a little experiment a few months ago. I timed myself from the the first time I opened a Fox journal to when I put it down, after gleaning all of the technical info that I considered of value. For FoxTalk, I spent 2 hours mulling over the 24 pages. It was, as usual, a very meaty issue... For FPA, about 15 minutes. The technical content of FPA has been down, way down. My three favorite aspects of FPA:
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>Steve Sawyers Tip, Tricks, and Traps...
>Tamar, Ted's, and Christof's Q and A column.....
>Andy MacNeills review of ActiveX controls...
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>I like to think that my two articles in the past 6 months help to boost things a bit as well...<g>
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>The rest of the magazine... you can keep, for many of the same reasons you see. It is either 6 months behind, not advanced enough, or it is so Fox-specific that I am not interested...
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>FoxTalk on the other hand, is on the right track...
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>My 2-cents...
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John,

I agree with you. I'm currently writing an article for FPA. It is VFP specific, but describes how to do something that we see in many applications that most VFP developers don't do, so hopefully it will get people thinking.