Hi Frank,

>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.

sounds good!

>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?..."

So your customers have to run the IDE? The runtime is supported on those platforms.

>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.

IMO, that would definately make sense! I really would like to start putting some of the new features in my current project which is in development, but I don't want to risk too much, so I'm taking notes of these places or if there are only small changes, I put them in with #if VERSION(5) >= 800. These are things like SET NOTIFY CURSOR OFF or that SYS() command which redirects the search of functions etc. to the inside of the EXE file first.

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

Same here. But I think we met several years before, but I can't remember where it was. So see you in FFM next year again!

Regards,
Armin