It very well may fall upon deaf ears, but at least we will have had the pleasure of having expressed ourselves with the hope that Micrsofot will at least listen to what the developers are saying.

Because I was discouraged, I took a class in C# this past fall, just so that I would not somehow become unemployed should FoxPro work fall off the scales. I have seen some of the top FoxPro "gurus" walk away from FoxPro entirely; When you see that, THAT "is" discouraging.

I eat lunch with an older gentleman occasionally, with whom I have worked with years ago. He is very discouraged, because he devoted so much effort to learning FoxPro then Visual FoxPro, then to have Microsoft devote fewer dollars to marketing outside of the developer community and then to see the jobs dry up, well, it was to much for him. He has not worked in 2 years or more on FoxPro projects. He loves the language as I do. You can't beat FoxPro.

When you see guys like Drew Speedie make FoxPro do things that even the developers of FoxPro didn't know about, you know that there is some good stuff in there.

I don't want to see such an excellent product be ignore and forgotten by Microsoft. Pieces of Visual FoxPro have gone into VB, SQL Server and even .NET, but no one seems to know that. At least, little credit is given to VFP.