John... (or should I say Mr. Main Line Software?)

>Have you seen any demos of VFP 7 that incorporates the VFP designers in the the VS shell? Compare that with Steve Ballmer's presentation that detailed that VB/VC will share the same shell, web forms, etc.... If VFP were going to share the same shell, don't you think that would be big news, that it would be announced???

So you are saying you make a statement that sounds like you know something for sure, because of an assumption you made based on technical previews on VFP??? Anyone assuming something, should say so, not make it sound like a fact. Remember who said this before?

I can say for sure that Microsoft intended (note the past, I don't know if they still do it) to add VFP to a project open dialog in some shared Visual Studio environment where you can choose to create different types of VC++, VB and VFP projects. This information was posted on a Microsoft web site and has been discussed here.

>Lets see, VB and VC support ActiveX designers today, and VFP does not. So, this whole issue IS NOT WITHOUT precident..

Picking one example is not a valid method to proof something. Neither is extrapolating something based on a single feature. An ActiveX Designer has *nothing* to do with a shared IDE.

Christof