>2. There is also a major decline in VB developers (because of transition to .NET). So why is VB not dead and VFP is ?

Yes, you right. My frieds whom are Delphi programmers. They said that "We won't use Delphi 8 because Delphi 8 is in .NET. It look like C#. Why I use a language like C# instead of C#?"