Leroy,

>My boss wants me to justify why I need to go to the conference in Orlando.

Tell him I said you should go. :-)

Seriously, you will not only get an incredible amount of immediately useful information on VFP, Web, SQL current versions, you will also get an indepth look at how VFP fits into the .NET tidal wave that's coming.

You also will return home greatly encouraged and refreshed from your interactions with other developers. For me, that's even better than the content of the sessions. But, this year, the sessions look to be much better than last year, so you'll end up being really, really encouraged and refreshed.