>>Ken,
>>For what it is worth, I finally got my boss to upgrade. We get it next Friday.
>
>Great news! Out of curiosity, what was the reason for the delay? I've been doing some research learning more about why some VFP developers wait so long until they are upgrading to VFP 7.0 or have not done so yet.

Hi Ken,

You should be pleased to know that today I ordered my copy of the VFP 7 upgrade. I'll tell you why: because I just learned that the VFP7 debugger includes a major improvement in its ability to reveal the inner workings of COM objects, like ActiveX controls. If there were not a single other improvement in VFP 7 over VFP 6, that feature by itself would have made me rush to get the upgrade a long time ago, had I known about it. Vlad G deserves the credit for having finally made this crystal clear in an offhand remark (message 649009).

Maybe I blinked or something, but I assure you I searched for any mention of such a capability, and I looked pretty carefully at all of the descriptions of what's new in VFP7, but I never had a clue that this improvement had been made. With all of the hoopla about Intellisense, I never dreamed that Microsoft would have omitted mention of such an important advance. To me, Intellisense seems like training wheels and a feeble way of compensating for inadequate documentation. This was never something I could get too excited about.

On the other hand, it sounds like the improvements in VFP 7's debugger will make a huge difference in my ability to probe the complex world of ActiveX controls and OLE Automation. Where VFP 6's debugger just displays a single impenetrable (object), VFP 7 actually reveals the hairy underlying structure! Gadzooks, man, how could Microsoft fail to mention this? I feel like a blind man who has been trying to map out a forest by poking around with his cane.

I hope this information will be helpful to your research on the reasons for people's delay in upgrading to VFP7. I would also hope that somehow you will find a way of adding this point conspicuously into some of the appropriate places that summarize what's new in VFP7. Intellisense may have a nice ring to it, but it's hard for me to see how any serious developer would fail to be vastly more interested in the improvements to VFP7's debugger. That's my 2 cents worth.

Mike