John,

Somewhere here, in the last couple of days, it has come to light that Borland plans to make Delphi play nice in the .NET sandbox. Apparently it is NOT going to be delivering a .NET version of Delphi.

VFP already does this to the extent practical for the nonce and I guess it will do more in Toldeo.

There should be absolutely no issue of conscience here, regardless of the age and social placement of the audience!

The question that is most relevant is 'do you want to become productive quickly in business once you graduate?'.
Assuming the answer to be yes, then VFP is a most legitimate choice. At this point it is decidedly much more rational that anything .NET!

It may not be to you because you have written off as final that MS is not going to market VFP. But the point of this thread is to discuss options that can change that.

This idea is only "back door" because it does not involve MS. It is really FRONT DOOR in every other respect.

No one can predict what MS has in mind for VFP. At present the clear appearance is that it is still being developed - enhanced and fixed. In other words, it looks like just about any other MS product except for the marketing aspect. Sure its resources are small, but that seems to be working out just fine for us too.

It would be a most interesting situation if efforts as proposed here did result in a noticeable growth of VFP licenses, wouldn't it?!?!
We know one thing for sure - licenses will NOT increase in numbers if nothing is done. Why do you always want to pi** on efforts to grow VFP?

Jim

>So in other words, back door the approach to show them Fox??? In good conscience, I could never recommend a newly minted grad to make an investment in Fox. If I were going to show these concepts, It would be in .NET, and hold onto yourself, given the audience, I would use C#.
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>There is simply no demand and back dooring the approach is not going to work.
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>And FWIW, the academic liscencing for VS is cheap. MS makes it so because the more people use .NET in college, the more demand there will be for the product.
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>In the end, it is MS driving the bus on this. MS has no interest in pushing new developers toward Fox.
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>Why is this a hard concept to grasp????