>"The May New Orleans show is going to be a VFP 6.0 show. That means that the topics presented are going to be old news to many of you….There's a sister show in New Orleans covering SQL Server and there's some sort of deal where the VFP conference attendees can attend SQL Server sessions as well….being able to cherry pick both VFP and SQL Server sessions sounds like a bargain…..Miami, on the other hand, will be featuring Visual FoxPro 7.0. I personally never have gone to a show to learn in-depth concepts….What I look for, instead, is guidance on the right approach and direction… Miami's sessions on VFP 7.0 will not only cover tried and true techniques that worked in VFP 6.0 and earlier, but will prepare you for 7.0 and beyond."

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>The latest news I have is that Visual Studio 7 will not be shipping until the first quarter of 2001. There is a high probability that the Miami conference will be featuring VFP7, since MS like to use these events to launch or preview new products. However, any guesses that Whil made on conference content are just that…pure speculation. I've been up to Advisor's conference site many times to view session content only to find…nothing. I'm not going to speculate, but I will say that I've heard from reliable sources that content for the Miami conference hasn't even been decided yet. The Miami conference will indeed provide attendees with guidance on the right approach and direction, as well as preparing them for VFP7 and beyond. However, many new features of VFP7 will be presented for the first time at the NOLA conference. Direction, preparation, and Microsoft's vision for VFP7, and the future of development in general, will also be presented in NOLA.

I talked to Robert Green recently and tried to pry inside info out of him about VFP 7.0. He wouldn't spill the beans on anything. He did say, "You definately want to be at New Orleans." (emphasis is his).

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We've all seen and heard about VB 7.0...some of it news that shocked the Fox community. I would not be surprised to see some sort of announcement/demo of similar magnitude.

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