Hi Allan,

I just did a quick search through the UT archives.

I found that the statement (question) about "Why should I build components in Visual Foxpro when I can..." was around (it included J++ at the time too) at least as at October 12, 1999.

A statement similar to the recent one about ACCESS was there too.

I also found it interesting that back on Feb. 15/00 ( message#332692 ) that Mr. Green replied to David Stevenson about his note that VFP was *not* mentioned in the VS.NET announcement that omission was an oversight that would be corrected.
While it is very possible that taking VFP "out of the box" came up as a later idea with merit, this does get me to wondering.

sitting under the table in case the sky falls,
JimN

>Doug,
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>>I may have missed it but I must have missed your answer. Do you think that what happened today is a positive series of events for FoxPro?
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>>Thanks again.
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>What happened today - the fact that 7.0 was RTM? I already said that was a good thing. Nothing else of significance happened as far as I know (I stand to be corrected) - a few threads quoted some of the text from the MS VFP site that has been there for months - so there's nothing new there.
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>Oh yea, there was one item that caught my attention - the link to the MS Technologies page - with no mention of VFP. Good thing? Being the 'negative ninny' that I am - I don't think so <g>.