Since the .net and Vfp are parting ways... here are a few questions for the Guru
1 - will there be hooks into the .net for us VFP guys to tap into ?

2 - would he suggest, off hand, that we - in the vfp community should take up another language - like VB - or C# to enhance our skills. and maintain current

3 - since the .net,- the way I understand it, is being designed arround the idea of cloud network - distributed databases with contacts, avail on any handhead devices, phone - palms notebooks etc. isnt the core of it, the sql server. and the rest- in basic terms either clients'(on the devices) or middleware,- web servers - applictaion servers etc. I guess the question is, just to confirm, that there wont be a vfp lite for windows CE Ever.

4 - I for one, dont really care too much about the .net. First being told we are in the UR, then we are out. now we are out of the .net. VF net. Just as long as we keep hooks into the data being served up, with it. and keep the ability to extract data to desktops, and reports. I dont think it matters to much that we in the vfp community will be able to write stuff for the palm devices.

5 - this is a stretch for him to know, but is there any longterm goal for the vfp coders. what marketing to they have planned for the VFP. Sometimes, just talking to others in the programming community, you get the feeling that VFP is not valid - and it comes up - every so often, that ms is dumping the product. and all that bull. how is MS going to, finally posistion VFP in the marketplace ? so the Coders like us who live and breath it, dont have to and wont have to hold our heads in shame evertime ms does something like - reverse their decision, to put us in the .net. in - out. We need to get VFP known for what it is. (not the stepchild of the MS) but as one valid solution as part of many solutions that MS fully supports.


Bob Lee
>The UT will interview, within the next few days, a high-profile member of
>the VB and .NET community. The interview will focus on VB.Net and related topics. Feel free to respond with any concerns, questions and feedback you may have in regards to that so we can include them to be discussed in the interview.
>The interview will then be posted as usual on the Universal Thread.
>
>I am posting this here as well because .NET will affect us as VFP developers. Is there anything you would like to ask him from our VFP point of view.
>
>For some past interviews: http://www.levelextreme.com/Interview/