You can always use earlier versions of VFP even if you buy the upgrade version. You can have versions 6, 7 and 8 on your development machine with no problems as long as they are installed in different locations. Do the third party tool vendors offer newer versions that work with current versions and also backward compatible?

Personally, I would like to see the VFP team start phasing out all of the FP 2.x and earlier "Included for Backward Compatibility" features. If developers have not upgraded these features in VFP apps by now, then they are doing a huge dis-service to their customers and to themselves.

>Here's the stupid thing that I did. I upgraded to VFP7 even if I did'nt really needed it. It was my contribution to the community.
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>I upgraded to VFP 7 but I still develop things with VFP6 because apparently I can still do that. At the moment I use VFP7 because of its intellisense but compile in VFP6. So it's the best of both worlds.
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>Now with VFP 8 it's another ball game. Upgrading to VFP8 means that development with lower versions must stop.
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>I bought some cool third party tools that allow me to build nice applications with VFP6. But with VFP7 I have some problems. So for now it's not too bad because I can still use VFP6.
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>So if I have problems with these third party tools with VFP7 I don't see why I would'nt have the same problems with VFP8.
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>But the catch is that I can't upgrade to VFP8 because I don't know if I'll have problems with those tools. And If I upgrade to VFP8 and have problems with those tools I can't go back to VFP6. Sure I could remove VFP8 (or can I from a legal point of view because at that point I upgraded to VFP8) and stay with VFP 7 or 6 or others below. But after losing some dollars doing the VFP8 test.
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>Is it only me or is there something weird with that decision by MS to do that?