>I was discussing new projects with a client today when he asked "What's happening with Foxpro?" I know what was going through his mind, Visual Basic is in everywhere and Visual Foxpro just doesn't have a healthy profile.
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>Why is that? VFP seems to be a fine, useful language. Why does Microsoft not push it? Is there something wrong with it? Am I charging down a dead-end street?
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>I am not satisfied with the usual answers of "Oh VFP 6.0 or VFP 7.0 or whatever is on the drawing board", let's face it folks, Microsoft does not want VFP to be mainstream, they are killing it softly.
Chris,

I disagree, VFP is NOT Mainstream, it si a database development language and is not a general purpose application language like VB is. VB is everyman's development tool and it is marketed to everyone from professional developers to weekend hobbiests. VFP is a fully object oriented relational database development language and therfore has a different market segment that is interested in it.

As for Micorsoft's promotion of VFP, you are right it is not in the same spotlight that VB is in. BUT, there is a devcon in september this year dedicated to VFP, VFP is now part of the Visual Studio and a copy of it ships with every copy of Visual Studio. These two items alone indicate that inside MS VFP is taken seriously.

In a large company like MS there issue of investing advertising dollars has to have a return, when they look at VB that sells millions of copies and then look at VFP that sells 100,000's of copies it is not surprising that the advertising budgets are different.