I wasn't in on this conversation, but I can tell you that many of the data features we have in VFP are being ported into Visual Studio and .NET. After all, yag runs both the VFP and the VS Data Tools team and who does data better then VFP?

One comment that I did hear Ken make in KC is that VFP usage is growing in Latin America and that MS-Latin America had asked him to go down there and to a several country tour to promote VFP.


>This is from a SBT news list like Pro Fox.
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> *** The Loop ***  From: "Gary Shurman" <gshurman@yahoo.com>
> OK. I had lunch with Ken Levy at DevEssentials in Kansas City last month. I
> asked if they were working on version 10. His response was basically -
> what new features would you like added? He felt that the product was
> very complete now and unless we as a VFP developers could come up with
> enough new ideas to make the product sell more, there would be no 10.
> He also said that members of the VFP team at Microsoft have been
> working with the .Net team to port the VFP functions to .Net. He
> didn't say that VFP will become part of .Net, only that functions are
> being ported.
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> As far as VFP and Longhorn were concerned, he said that it would be
> like going from DOS to Windows. Most older apps would run, but would
> be ugly. Since Longhorn isn't expected until sometime in 2006 and it
> will take some time after that before our clients buy PCs with
> Longhorn installed, I'm sure Microsoft will have solutions for us with
> either a new version of VFP or a .Net that will be easy to port our apps to.

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>Ken: Is this accurate?