My hope is, that ulike Visual dBase V / VII, MS leaves the @SAY functionality in the product? What is AutoIncrement anyway? I been in the sticks - and just (getting ready) to start my first billable VFP 7 project! BTW, MS, every package we distribute will have a full VFP license. You guys need your taste too!


>The recent thread on the news from Essential Fox has lead me to some thoughts that I want to share. Part of these are based on history, part based on what I saw in the keynote video from the last DevCon. I’ll take the historical perspective first because it is fact.
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>Around 1993, Microsoft entered into an agreement with Ashton-Tate to make dBase IV the “natural” front end for dealing with SQL Server. Unfortunately, because of limitations within both products, this “vision” was never realized.
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>Shortly thereafter, Microsoft bought Fox Software.
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>Now, skipping ahead to more recent events, consider the following.
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>At DevCon, it was Calvin Hsia who demonstrated the auto-increment feature. I spent 17 years in business management; I know that you don’t assign your best to a minor task. It was Calvin, who was behind the implementation of Intellisense in VFP 7.0.
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>As soon as I heard about the implementation of the auto-increment column, I began to think about the possibilities.
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>What if auto-increment was the “tip of the iceberg”?
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>What if it was an indication that VFP was to become the “natural” interface for dealing with SQL Server?
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>What if the answer to the above was, “Yes”, and more importantly, what would this say about the future?
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>Now all of the above is pure speculation on my part. I don’t know anything that isn’t common knowledge in this regard. What I do know is, if this is the case, then the future of VFP is both bright and promising.