John,

I was hoping you'd reply. Your insights on this will definately help.

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>What are the other presenters doing? What is the overall theme of presentation? My suggestion is to keep in line with what the VB and VC guys do. Filling up 15 minutes is pretty simple. The key is to keep in line with what the other presenters are doing.

I believe there will only be one other presenter, an MS employee from the local office (not a marketing guy). He's going to do kind of a glossary of MS development tools. I know about the lack of VFP and down right false statements about VFP that some MS presenters have given and didn't want that to happen here.

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>To me, it is very interesting that your requirement is to build a COM component. Is that the focus, middle tier? What about the other tools? How much time do they have? Have you given thought to what your COM Component will do?

He told me that I had to end up with a COM component since he's focusing on integration. I thought about pulling some data via ADO and then convert it to XML. VFP should be faster at this than VB.

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>Showing folks that it can fit into MTS would be nice. Perhaps creating some ASP docs that use the VFP COM Component would be a good idea. Send me a private email, I have some samples that you can use.

MTS is a nice idea.

Thanks for the samples. I'll shoot you a private email later today.


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>Microsoft is doing a presentation here in SLC in June called "Microsoft Development Tools A-Z." I will be doing the presentation on VFP and will have about 10-15 minutes. My only requirement is that I end up with a COM object at the end of the presentation. That'll take about two minutes. Any ideas on what I can do to fill the rest of the time?
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