West Wind Web Connection definitely competes. It looks like VB is finally getting around to something that does compete with WC.

>>Hi Denis,
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>>Improvements made to VB7 is not a reason to be depressed, because VFP is a great language itself.
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>>Igor
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>>>Just finished looking at the speech from Steve Ballmer. It's been announced that VB7 will have inheritance and a lot of other nice things for the internet.
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>>>Is there still something that VFP will do better than VB. Is there something left besides local data processing?
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>>>I just hope to hear something from the VFP team about VFP 7 because I feel a little bit depressed right now.
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>I have the impression that for some things VFP is always a version behind VB. VB6 has intelisense but VFP 6 does'nt. VFP 7 will get intellisense.
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>VB7 will facilitate integration to the internet. Will VFP7 do it or will we have to wait to VFP8?
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>Internet is one of the most important thing right now in the computer world. As developers we have to move fast in order to master the new technologies.
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>I know that there are tools (West Wind) to help us work with the internet. Do those tools really compete with what was shown that will come in VB7?
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>Until I hear from new things coming in VFP7 I'll be a little bit depressed.
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>I still think that right now VFP is the best tool to do data centric applications but what I want out of this is to be reassured that VFP7 will still be a tool at the cutting edge of technology.
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>Do anybody know anything?