Hello John,

I know it runs.
But I would like to know if My VFP Application can (not in the current version but in a future one) use the new technologies developed by MS.

If my application can have the look and feel of Longhorn using Avalon Forms and XAML.
If I can use Indigo to seemlessly access web services in a distributed environment without having to host them in ASP.NET and passing Datasets as parameters.
If I can use UDT from Yukon.

Just to mention some of the most interesting ones to me.


Ken has made it clear that it Won't be possible. I find it very useful and correct (from Ken's) to state this.
I am a VFP fan, has I said before. All my Applications (10,000 Instalations of My ERP) are in VFP. But I am not one of those who thinks thgat VFP has to continue to be the One and Only Developer Tool forever.
I use ASP.NET today, and the .NET CF to develop to Smartdevices.

I just understood, that it is now the time to start shifting away My Desktop applications from VFP. (the softing started a long time ago, when I abandoned DBfs for the central data repository and switched my Database to SQL Server)

I am glad that I can make this in time, has all this new technologies are still a time frame away.





>Hi Francisco,
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>FWIW I was the first person in the world (I think) to run VFP on Longhorn. It ran fine.
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>>I'm a VFP Fan.
>>I'm at the PDC right now.
>>I just saw what will the new Windows Longhorn applications look alike. And what the new technologies (Avalon, Indigo, Smartdevices development) enable and how to use them in .NETR managed code.
>>Of course there will be a complete .NET class libraries to work with all the new Longhorn and Avalon (the visual presentation layer) features.
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>>My question is:
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>>How do you think we, in VFP will be able to keep up with this evolution ?
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>>The way I see it, the .NET world gets to use all the novelties of the platforms and other technologies but we don't.
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>>All comments will be apreciated
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>>Thanks