Craig,

>Never has CoDe stated they are a VFP magazine. CoDe is in the process of increasing their circulation. The way to do this is to target articles to the audience.

You are correct that we are in the process of increasing circulation. All along, from the very first issue in April, 2000, CoDe Magazine has been positioned as an advanced developer magazine focusing on in-depth explanations of Microsoft technologies.

We have many VFP developers among our readers, and we don't expect that to change, even as we increase circulation by bringing in .NET developers. You also hit the nail on the head about general-interest articles, such as UML modeling, good application design, testing strategies, and other topics not covered well by the other magazines.

And, we remain one of the few places where you find references to VFP and VFP code samples mixed in with other languages.

Most VFP developers I have talked with about the magazine's content have told me they like it because it challenges them to learn new things, and this is as it should be, I think. We will NEVER be a one-tool magazine, as most of us are no longer one-tool developers.

Just today, I have been working on sending out an email survey to users of our Voodoo Web Controls, a product written in VFP7. In the process of doing that, I created my first VB.NET WinForms application, which queries SQL Server (the Server Explorer in VS.NET is way cool) and uses the System.Web.Mail classes, which are wrappers around CDOSYS, to send the HTML emails, which I created in FrontPage.

Now, I'm using VFP7 to automate Outlook and grab XML snippets from email messages sent by Rick's VFP-based Web Store for Voodoo orders, using the XML DOM Document object inside VFP7 to parse out the customer info and email addresses, and store them into a VFP7 table, which will then be brought into SQL Server.

All in a day's work, but certainly not one language only, although it could have been.

For a developer like me, CoDe's editorial mix is just right! :-)