>>At DevDays they mentioned that there are 19 languages being ported to run under the Microsoft.Net environment. Apart from the 3 MS languages, they mentioned Perl and Fujitsu Cobol. Somewhat of a let down not having FoxPro on this list.
>>Anybody have any ideas/thoughts on the matter?
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>VFP can produce and consume web services which is one important aspect of .NET. Having VFP run on the CLR (Common Language Runtime) would remove what is powerful and different about VFP. It appears we would lose our fast local database, fast text handling and macro substitution. The CLR and Visual Studio.NET are only parts of .NET.
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>For a similiar topic see
>http://fox.wikis.com/wc.dll?Wiki~ShouldVFPBeInVSDotNet
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>See Ken Levy's take on VFP7 and Visual Studio.NET
>http://www.levelextreme.com/News/000001.asp
In one of his slides, Ken actually mentioned something like VFP is part of .NET infrastructure but it is not part of VS.NET. I hope I'd written down the slide but I didn't...