>I did read about MS's strategy to pull VFP out of the .NET framework. You mentioned that a majority of people did not want it to be in the .NET framework in DevCon. I would be interested to know the some of the reasons given for keeping VFP out, if for nothing, just to argue the case that MS has interest in keeping VFP alive beyond .NET.

Yep, VFP is "out" ! ... but, Crystal Reports is "in" ! ...

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