. . . and, it seems, very little or NOTHING about FIXING whats already wrong/bad in the product, including both bugs and DOCS.

Such forward thinking is good, but one REALLY has to wonder about the condition of the "foundation" in this case. I think it is in much poorer shape than is generally recognized/credited. It may become much like driving a shiny new Corvair (or a Pinto for the more agedly-challenged).

VFP is "good", but we *NEED* **GREAT**

Cheers,
Jim N

>>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???
>>
>>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.