>Hey Bruce,
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>Ken Levy wrote back, he had this to say:
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>Of course we do know about all these feature in Visual Studio .NET languages. Can you list what features you think most VFP developers want and need, and why? Do you want less new report writer features and more OOP features? Do you think that most VFP developers would prefer to have these new OOP features rather than new SQL language features in Europa? We do not find these things you list below in the top wish lists requests on the UT Wish List. You can put any suggestions you want in the UT wish list which we read, or you can comment on existing ones there as well.

That sounds like the answer I would expect. Ken and the VFP Team are very open-minded about the VFP's future, IMO. They are basing most of their Europa enhancements on the input from vfp users, AFAIK. So, as Ken said, put your wishes on the list (if they're not already there, anyway) or comment on them if they are.

But as I was trying to say before, it's not that your requests are bad, they aren't. It's simply that to obtain some/most of them, we'd lose vfp nearly entirely, and end up with just another VB.NET (more-or-less).

(Hence my suggestion of 2 vfp versions, an "origional-style" and a ".NET-component-style" version. I'm sure that idea will be a top MS priority :-)