>>The silence of the VFP dev team is deafening... they really need to make a major announcement with some real meat in it.
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>Untrue. As far as I can tell VFP7 demo was making the rounds in spring 99, a full year before I heard of a VB7 demo.
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More accurately, the VFP team had better put out something more meaty than Intellisense... maybe use the VS7 release delay to roll some VFP8 enhancements into VFP7. And for a marketing powerhouse like MS, year-old news is pretty stale.

>>The VB team is sailing upwind and stealing their breeze...
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>The demo/announcement was at a VB conference, not a Visual Studio conference. Our turn comes in a few months in New Orleans.

The new MS site is a Visual Studio NextGen site, not a VB NextGen site. Sure, the Web Services etc. is common to all components, but if they're advertising details of language enhancements for VB, they should do it for all other components as well.

The lack of news on that site about VFP7 enhancements, even those that have been demo'd already, says to me that MS might not be fully committed to them.