But that's the thing what does a guy should do when the money is tight and he's alone to cover it all.

I'm sure that the description I gave you applies to many Fox developers.

>PMFJI
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>I, like yourself, was questioning this a while back until I noticed something that should have been clear for everyone to see, but unfortunately wasn't, and that is you have to accept that VFP isn't in the "long-term" plan for Microsoft, .Net is.
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>I'm not sure what position you are in as an employee, but I am fortunate in that if my company decides on a new language, I will be re-trained and allowed time to pick up the language.
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>As it goes, we are moving away from Fox, very slowly. We have MSDN subscribtions now and they are definitely worth it IMO, there isn't much you can't get your hands on, giving you masses of freedom in the language you choose or the tools you wish to utilise.
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>I'm still continuing fox development with VFP8, and will do until the day comes that I work on a .Net app, but that could be years away yet.
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>After using VFP8, you know by now it's pretty awesome, and is more powerful than it's ever been, if I was given the choice to go with technology or my existing preference (VFP), I would choose the latter, the advantages to be gained from it are un-equalled as far as I'm concerned.
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>Kev
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>>>>I'm questioning myself and apparently you <g>, where do VFP fit?
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>>>This is really a question for you to answer and decide yourself. The direct answer to this question is, get MSDN Subscriptions and use the tool(s) for your development needs.
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>>Thanks a lot for that very highly clarifying answer. Oh and by the way I'll make sure that I also get all the development tools for linux (that implies learning Java) and also I'll get all the script languages for the web (just in case) like PHP, JavaScript... I'll also get Oracle, MySql... Who knows what I'll need in the future.
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>>You can't be serious. This is the worst I was expecting from you. I'd expect an answer like that from someone who does'nt really care about something because he's on his way out of a given place. Is that the case? Where are the answers to the other questions?
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>>To me this is a clear sign that VFP is a dead end choice. It really does'nt look good when someone in charge of marketing for a product can't find answers to some basic questions.
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>>Perhaps you just gave a VERY CLEAR beginning signal that NOW is the time to leave VFP.
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>>Is that really the way you want to end this thread?