Your right M$ is locking developers in.. They aren't thinking about cross development. But we have too. I'd start using what ever langauge or IDE today if I could find one that was as productive as VFP. Each time I research a langauge I quickly discover that it's more work than VFP. I have invested money into Delphi/Kylix only to find I had to write many of the tools myself. The same is true with Python. Now I'm looking at Java (mostly because it runs so much faster now) and I'm hoping I don't have to write all the tools from scratch. Mind you I have to do this while making a living with VFP. What's a simple developer to do?
John

BTW do you happen to know how one adds a class to an object in Java - as in I can add a dataclass to a VFP form?