>The fact is that I switched to VB a coupla years back, and now I am back to VFP!
>
>>>I asked a local company why they don't list FoxPro in their ad anymore and here is their response:
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>>>"About 90% of our work is Access. Foxpro continues to lose market share down from 40% when Microsoft purchased it to about 7% today. We patch Foxpro apps but we really get calls for conversion from FoxPro DOS."
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>>I disagree with your basic premise. There has been no decline in the use of VFP, but in fact evidence to suggest an increase in use.
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>>- more major Foxpro events per year
>>- an increase in the traffic of the UniversalThread
>>- increase in the size of the MS Foxteam
>>- increase in the number of major Foxpro sites
>>- VFP was chosen ahead of VI and J++ as one of the 3 core languages in the MCSD
>>
>>Anyone else have other facts?
Hi Juan,
I'm learning VB myself with the Murach's VB 6.0 book. I'm looking forward to developing some database apps with it to see how they stack up!
-JT
Jeff Trockman, MCP