>>>>It would be nice if VFP also got this option.
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>>>Yeah, it might be nice to be able to compile to managed code. But for the amount of effort that it would take the VFP team to do this, only to arrive at a product that works almost exactly like another product that I already own (VB), I say why the hell bother?
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>>Why would Microsoft invent C#?
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>Because a very large group of people know how to code C and *HATE* VB. I much rather code in something that's closer to C than Visual Basic (although admittedly a number of the really bad language things about VB are addressed in VB7).

Wouldn't these people just use VC++ version 7 instead of switching to C#?