Ricardo,

>Hopefully my 20 minutes answering questions helped. Sorry I couldn't stay longer. Please let me know if there are other questions that I should answer.

Yes, very helpful. I hope this is the start of ongoing dialog with the community that Robert suggested at DEVCON. You were there for 20 minutes, but it looked like you had your hands full with all the questions people were sending your way. This kind of interchange with the community is very much appreciated.

The chat log has not been posted yet on the wiki, so I'll just list a few questions here that were asked after you left.

Your last comment was "Bob, you hit it right in the head. .NET is distributed Web apps and you play with VFP components and web services."

After that, these questions were asked and discussed a bit. Perhaps you can respond to some of them:

"So, if we need to do web apps, we will have to learn VB.NET and ASP+ for the user interface?"

"Can a CLR app (i.e. VB7) be a simple Windows desktop app?"

"For someone who is starting a web based app, which should be the best way to follow? Wait for .NET? ASP with VFP COM server? Anything else?"

"Does COM+ mean that I have to have an NT Server (are COM+ services available on Win98?)."

"How do I make my VFP COM components .NET compatible?"

"Will VFP7 be called VFP.NET?"

"SOAP is now available from MS site. Are there other development tools that will be valuable and that are going to be a part of VS.NET?"