>There is no downside here. Whatever unfolds, we will still have a great tool and if the CLR succeeds, it will be that much easier to add VB to our skill-set.

I think there is a huge downside to this. MS will never allow VB to just go away. It has Millions of developers. VFP has hundreds of thousands of developers.

IMHO, this move by MS will continue to keep VFP in the shadows and may even provide the final blow. It appears that they only are keeping it around so as to not entirely alientate a chunk of developers.

VFP just got the ability to create apartment model COM objects in V6 when VB could do it in 1997. It doesn't interact 100% with other/custom COM objects, they are only upgrading the internal interfaces and language, and not the user interface portions and development designers of the language.

I don't know a lot about VFP7, but I think that this next version will either dramatically help the product or hurt it.... and doing nothing, will really hurt it.

My .02! :-)

Jay