Jim,

I knew that stuff had been around for some time - hopefully anyone who reads this thread will realize that these statements were not made yesterday. You realize that by pointing out this fact this you run the risk of being labelled a 'negative ninny' ...

>Hi Allan,
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>I just did a quick search through the UT archives.
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>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.
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>A statement similar to the recent one about ACCESS was there too.
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>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>.