>Considering Robert Green and the VFP Team members are monitoring these threads how bout you guys inivte your bosses to come along to a Microsoft sponsored VFP conference too? Recently Mr Balmer gave a keynote at a VB conference why can't he come to a VFP event? Has he or Gates _ever_ attended a VFP conference? I wonder which conferences for which MS products they attend or have attended. It might go a long way just to have them there and give a keynote. The bath water is gone (not in the box-VS.NET) but the baby is still very much alive!

Steve Balmer was the keynote speaker at one of the DevCons a few years ago, I don't recall which one (San Diego '97?). Bill Gates did a video for one in '93 at Orlando, before he got married.

>>Excellent point and one that gave me pause for thought. One very, very key element in the future of VFP as a recognized professional development tool will be the re-introduction of Visual FoxPro sessions at TechEd and TechNet roadshows. If we can't start getting the attention of IT management through promotion in the stuff they read or the MS conferences they go to, we're dead meat in the long term regardless of the tireless efforts of the Fox Team.
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>>In summary, if there is something we should be doing with a very large impact on VFP developers, it's finding out what in the hell we can do to get Fox back in the fold at the MS conferences, especially TechEd.