>My point was not that the PDC is not a great place to learn XML, etc. It is!
>The point was that they say to go to the PDC and be the first to get tools for creating/consuming web services! That is marketing talk and not technically true as VFP7 is the first production Microsoft language or tool to do that (to my knowledge).

Got it, your point was not obvious, thanks for the clarification. I agree with your summary. But the PDC is targeted for VS developers and will be all about VS .NET, I don't expect any VFP developers to attend so having talks/info about VFP there would not be useful. You are correct in that VFP 7.0 is the first Microsoft developer tool to ship which supports XML Web services integrated with IntelliSense and component creating.