>>This is a new topic on the Wiki at http://fox.wikis.com/wc.dll?Wiki~ShouldVFPBeInVSDotNet~softwareEng

I am going out on a limb here.

Short answer: Leave VFP in ANY version of Visual Studio.

Long answer. As I had lamented in a previous thread, Visual FoxPro is in a struggle for its life. At present, I have found NO college or University that actually teaches courses in VFP. (In the US) There are certification exams, but there are NO exam guides or training cirriculum available anywhere, with the sole exception of Jim Booth's crash courses at his facility. The longivity of VFP is going to require newer developers to be exposed to it and to have training available. Microsoft continues to promote Access as the database of choice for standalone applications, and moving to the very expensive SQL server for larger distributed database applications. This leaves a big hole in the middle which VFP fills quire adeqautely, but without exposure, training, promotion and name recognition, our favorite database programming environment is likely to die with us. I am a VFP loyalist, and I am joined be a legion of others. But what happens when we retire? Who is enticing the younger generation to come on board?
I think it is really to much to expect of an individual developer to build the next generation of applications using a patchwork of C++, C#, VB, VID, VJ++, and, of course VFP. These languages and their development environments are big and complex. It would take a super-geek to master all of them, and what would most likely happen would be that the application would end up being mediocre. In addition the developer is going to become so expensive the smaller entities will no longer be able to afford them. Perhaps that is happening now.
Not all employers can afford large specialized develpopment staffs, and I am sure that the developers that work in small office environments are doing a yeoman's job (both genders) is getting a working application out the door.
There is a dire need for the Microsoft Team, mamagement, and the Developer commuity to promote Visual FoxPro. Get some written and/or online training out the door and available. Recruit some new blood. It will better our whole industry and will contribute more to the betterment of a great product.

I strongly invite comments on this, and encourage extension of this thread.