>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. <

You may be right. OTOH, when VFP 3 was released Whil Hentzen and I presented it at the Chicago session of DevDays and got an excellent turnout. There were about 600 people there and the audience was evenly divided between VFP, VB, and VC++. VFP was the only one of the three with a new release out, so I'm sure some VB and VC++ folks came to our session simply because that's what was new. Of course, that is also the case now. VFP 7 is new while the .NET tools won't ship until next year sometime.

At least a dozen VB developers came up to me after the session and said, wow, that's cool, I had no idea FoxPro could do that. So it is possible to open people's eyes, even though as you say most developers don't switch tools lightly.

Mike