Hi dave.

I'm getting tired of these kind of messages. People who post them clearly don't see the value and the difference of VFP with regerds to VFP.

I'm developing quite complex applications and can't see them converted to .NET at all. I agree that VFPs market might be shrinking due to the fact that certain type of applications can be written in other (.NET) languages as well and to some extend even better.

However when you look at the ultimate database application where everything is datadriven and the much of the program itself could be a in a database, .NET has not too much offer. .NET is just missing a local database engine. For datadriven application this is a neccesity. Relying on for example SQL server to handle your meta data is not an option: It will be too slow and will stress the SQL server and network too much. LONG LIVE VFP's LOCAL DATA ENGINE.

I guess there a lot of 'VFP' developers that don't develop application to the extent I do and don't really need the VFP strengths. Well please leave the VFP community and let us develop "REAL" database applications.

I've seen a message here un the UT with regards to a new ?# language in development that has a local dataengine. I'd rather jump that train if its there, rather than jump the infancy traject of .NET

My two cents...

Walter,






>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"