David,

I was at Microsoft about 3-4 weeks ago and had a wonderful visit with Randy B, Ricardo Wenger, Calvin & Gene Goldhammer. I got to spend some time going over some of the new features in 7.0 and I can say a couple things.. First of all, there are going to be a number of cool enhancements to current commands. A bunch of attention has been paid to many of the long standing issues and those of us who've been around for a while will find that a lot of the FoxWish stuff has been addressed.

Secondly, and thinking about one command (existing but now extended) in particular, it will in my humble opinion help make VFP VERY strong indeed with respect to serving up XML or anything else you'd like to the web. Essentially, if developed correctly creating web content from a single COM object call. Very cool stuff, particularly since they've taken an older command that I've not seen used very much and given it about five cases of Jolt Cola worth of infusion. <g>

I saw nothing that has not already been shown publicly but before I say anything specific I want to make sure it's ok, ok?

Best,

DD


>Erik,
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>>Where did Robert say this?
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>>I wonder if VFP will offer built-in support like VB has promised, or if we will have to build our own XML interface definition files.
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>>Saying that a product will support Web-services is saying no more than that product can build COM objects...
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>I don't think anything has been said yet about how VFP will assist in creating Web Services, just that it will support Web Services. About all that has been publicly said is on this new page:
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>http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/nextgen/language/default.asp
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>Presumably there may be some kind of wizard approach or tie-in to project manager, but maybe not the same designer approach of VC & VB.
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>I also wonder if we will have drag and drop of Web Services into a VFP project, which will be in VB/VC. This article is new, about Web Services via C++ ATL Server, and gives more of a glimpse of the technology:
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>http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/nextgen/atlserver/building.asp