Armin,

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>how are you doing? :)
>

Better now. I have been trying to use some of the new Soap-Features (Attachments)
with VFP7 and was just about to bang my head against the wall because I could
not get VFP to include a certain reference into the the typeLib. Thus the WSDL
Generator failed to to a proper job (see tread from the 26th under WebServices
- I was reeeealy desperate). But today I tried with VFP8 and it immediately
worked.


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>it is interesting, but if it's also reliable
>

That's what I'm trying to find out. I'm also running it under NT.
I need to know if I can start to develop with VFP8 NOW or first have
my customers fill out a questionaire "What system are Your running?,
are You planning to Update Your Hard and Software within the next
1, 2, 3 or five years?..."

If I would come to the conclusion that the VFP8-Beta runs safe with all existing
VFP7-Functionality and maybe gives me some of the new functionality,
I could start to implement some things now (at least
in the concepts), maybe with ON/OFF switches, and be ready with the first final
release.
Its just now that I could make use of Collection-Classes and BindEvents(). If
it turns out not to be stable enough I would have to create my own array-collections
now and probably redesign them in four months. I have spent much time this
year fighting with my touch-screen-cashier-system where I was lonnnnging for
such a thing as eventbinding in order to create pseudo-modal forms. With VFP7
I had to build complex scenarios and employ message-Handlers in order to get this
thing running smoothly.

>
>... Anyway, I'm running XP <g>.
>

Yes OK. That's the easy way. But as it is approved by MS Its their part to test
reliability.


Best regards to "Stuagat" - was nice meeting You at the DevCon in Frankfurt.