To add salt to the the wound, certain Microsoft VFP Team members are not even advising people to stay with VFP but rather encouraging them to move to VB.NET.

What are you referring to here? This is a completely false statement.

Victor, for almost every VFP developer using .NET (and most VFP developers using .NET are using it with VFP, together), Visual Basic .NET is an easier .NET language over C# to learn for most of them and offers the same feature set and functionality as does C#.

Ken, I was so disappointed when I over heard you speaking at EssentialFox with a VFP Developer that was asking for advise on moving over to .NET.

I expected an answer such as: "Why are you dropping VFP?" or "Why not use a mixture of .NET and VFP?"

No. Your answer without a split second of hesitation was, "Use VB.NET." At a VFP conference? I could see doing this at a .NET conference.

Reasons like this is why I'm stepping up and making an effort to come up to speed with C#. My feeling is that Microsoft will stop producing VFP in the very near future. If you keep doing things like this there isn't gonna be any more VFP conferences because you encourage everyone to use VB.NET. Maybe you should try to encourage the use of both .NET and VFP.