C# is a language and VB and VFP are products. I noticed that a while back and chalked it up to M$ usual indifference to FP.

My Orange County California user group use to meet at M$ headquarters in Irvine and we had a personal representative at the local M$ office (Curt Nason) formerlly of Astton Tate. M$ kicked us out and Nason lost interest in FP and us, and we have been on our own ever since, with our meeting sites wandering about OC. The Group is still quite alive and has spun off a C# group of which I am also a member.



>Hi there, I want you to know that you're not the only doubtful person on >his vfp subject I am too!!! it's my personal opinion (maybe I'm mistaken) >fp is great but we can't ignore the idea that it's been "microsoft's

"bastard son" for many years,

..........I have seen "Red Headed Stepchild". Apparently the kid that was beaten because his parent was clearly the child of the missing parent.

>all the marketing, ads, publicity has always

I been to VB, there're a lotta folks out there and they haven't ever heard the word "foxpro" some people doesn't consider the fox as a programming language as a matter of fact see I'm not lying go to this link and see it for yourself
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>http://msdn.microsoft.com/usergroups/find.asp
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>microsoft doesn't consider foxpro as a programming language but as a >product, see? I'm a VB programmer too but I'm getting involved with C# >and .net 'cause I feel, I think that foxpro is gonna be history as clipper, >dbase, visual dbase, etc. Just take C# for a ride you can be as productive >as you're with vb and still have the raw power of c++ (that's the slogan, >right?)


I studied VB before I learned FP but went to FP because it seemed to be the only serious M$ database language at the time.This was before they had even developed SQL Server.

Amazing as it may seem, when I got involved with M$, it was the "underdog" and IBM was still the Big Bully on the Block (although fading).
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>regards