Dave,

Tried to find a copy of FoxPro Advisor in Toronto in the last 3+ years?... rarer than hen's teeth on the store shelves here these days. That the World's Biggest Bookstore even had the book is progress in my eyes! I may even drop by and pick one up, now that I KNOW it's there.

As regards the other observations... I would expect, as Mr. McNeish is reported to have observed, that the bottom has (italics...your second lesson in HTML, so now you are at 'pro' level) fallen out of the VFP framework market. What else would you expect with the push for .NET being so aggressive??? Especially when you add up all of the marketing seen for VFP in the same period!!!
That many VFP MVPs have 'adopted' (hmm, I guess 'added to their repetoire' is more appropriate) .NET is little more than succumbing to the aggressive marketing (Don't want to be out of the loop) and their nature of sliding along the cutting edge anyway.

But it's fine if you leave VFP for HTML. Moves like that can only help to increase the value of VFP developers who stick it out.

That MS intends for .NET to win and be THE platform of the future is beyond doubt. They may be encountering a tad more resistence than expected but I'm sure they'll reach their goal... in time. Time that will let .NET reach puberty before I get interested.
cheers

>Prominently displayed at the "World's Biggest Bookstore" in downtown Toronto three week's ago is "what's new in Visual Foxpro 8.0". The World's Biggest bookstore is in the heart of downtown toronto with a computer book section of some 5000 square feet. The place is open more than twelve hours a day.
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>I returned recently and asked the manager of the computer book section how many copies have been sold. Thus far, one copy.
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>Rick Strahl is no longer a VFP MVP...he is spending time on C#...
>the price of his VFP web store fell thirty three percent....
>Kevin Macneish is waving the white flag on his VFP framework...
>Whil Hentzen is publishing Linux books...
>Many high profile VFP developers are leaving...
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>At a prominent developers conference Ken Levy played "the best is yet to come" by Frank Sinatra...
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>Well folks it looks like VFP is as dead as 'ole' blue eyes....
>p.s. the 'ole' is not an acronym for "object linking and embedding"