>PMFJI, but I think your efforts are best directed if they are aimed at NON-vfp developers. We, vfp developers don't really need to be sold on the product.
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>I don't envy you one bit... while MS as a whole is trying to convince the world that Web apps is the way to go, you have to somehow get it accross that desktop apps are very much alive without contradicting your company's message.

My efforts are directed at both VFP developers (because we need to get people to upgrade to VFP 7.0), and also non-VFP developers. The non-VFP directed efforts include the Steve Ballmer video clip on the web site I created, the email summary of VFP 7.0 that went to dozens of press, magazines, analysts, etc. last week, a direct mailing going out soon, and regular mentions of VFP7 in MSDN Flash and on the MSDN web site and elsewhere on microsoft.com.

Having VFP at a non-VFP conference doesn't work, people don't go to the sessions. A few years ago at TechEd when over 10,000 people attended, there was a VFP session and only 30 people went to it, a complete waste of time. The PDC would have the same results. People don't just switch development tools that easily. I'm being honest and direct about things like this because I feel it is important that VFP developers are more realistic about their thinking on topics such as this.