>> We (VFP) are actually better off than the "old" VB and C/C++ "coummunities"; their web sites and resources are being gutted so that they (dragging and screaming) will migrate to .Net (since the "old" development platforms will no longer get any support). <<

Gerry,

I really don't want to jump into the larger debate here, since it's been obvious for a while that .NET is Microsoft's developer focus, but wanted to speak to this point specifically. Despite all the hollering and screaming from the VB developer community about the amount of VB 6 code which is broken by VB.NET, support for VB6 has not been dropped. Microsoft announced that full support of VB 6 would continue until 2005 and fee-based support would be available until 2008. According to Microsoft that is an unprecedented period of support for any Microsoft product ever. Do they want VB6 developers to migrate to VB.NET? Yes, clearly. (Just like they want VFP developers to migrate to VFP 8). Have they stopped supporting VB6? No.

Mike