>It appears as if Microsoft is slowing withdrawing from supporting Foxpro again. There are no materials available for the Foxpro certification and there is no information about the next version of Foxpro which normally would be in beta by now. Any one have any ideas or knowledge about this???
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>Thanks.
Rebecca,

The enxt version of VFP was demonstrated at devCon in San Diego a couple of weeks ago. Certification is available for VFP 3.0, 5.0 did not have enough changes to warrant a new certification.

At DevCon we were shown the following about the new version:

Code name: Tahoe
Supports Microsoft Transaction Server (MTS)
COM components will use the apartment model threading
MTS will manage multiple instances of VFP COM components
Active document support lets you run a VFP form in Internet Explorer
OLE Drag and Drop lets you drag and drop text from Word onto a VFP form
Scrollbar property (None, Horizontal, Vertical, and Both) allows for scrollable forms
INDEXSEEK() function allows you to find a key value within an index WITHOUT moving the record pointer
AGETCLASS() and AVCXCLASSES() functions to obtain class information without having to open the class
Some of the file functions in Foxtools.fll will be native to VFP such as JUSTEXT(), JUSTFNAME()
There is a Hyperlink baseclass added
GIF and JPG files support with previewing when picking a file
VARTYPE() function which is similar to TYPE() with some variations
Comparison of object reference variables using the = sign which will be true only if the two variables are referencing the same object
Every baseclass has an Addroperty method that can be called at runtime to add properties on the fly
TRANSFORM() function will handle all data types, meaning no longer needing to TRANSFORM(DTOC(DateVar) ...)
STRTOFILE() functiont hat will write a string to a file
FILETOSTR() function that will read a file into a character variable
HTML help support
and last but not least ...
There will NOT be a new Mac version

The timing for the beta on the new version was not announced.

MS did say they are working on the design for the version after Tahoe.