>As most of us know, why other ppls think VFP is "die"? One of the reason is, they haven't hear any VFP news for long time. Ya, Fox Team and you push VFP very hard. But who know? Only VFP community. Therefore, if someone from MS can speak in MSDN, PDC conference about VFP, and tell everybody VFP is best data centric development tool for small and mid business, VFP roadmap and etc..... I think it is 100 times more effective then we spoke.

I realize what you are saying here. But as it has been for years and will continue to be... Visual Studio is Microsoft's premiere strategic flaghship developer tool and will be "the" tool that is marketed the way you are describing. The way VFP is messaged and marketed will remain the same and the plans will not change for Europa. You can ask for that to be changed all you want, but it won't have any impact on the decision that is in place and has been the same since the last decade.

I don't have to say this, I could just ignore or dodge your question and comments. I'm just telling you directly about how it is, how it will be. If I was a VFP developer (as I was) in the community, I would want to know this information if it was the case, so I'm telling you now, as one VFP developer to another. We are working on some useful marketing exposure efforts for VFP 8.0 and upcoming Europa, but as for the strategic messaging at PDC and conferences as such, the message is .NET and Visual Studio as the strategic tool. While I say this, we are very excited about Europa and the feature list, listed in the archive articles at http://msdn.microsoft.com/vfoxpro/letters.