>And perhaps one day he'll start again being helpful to others on how to use .Net - in the .Net forum - instead of just trying to be waste our time.

One thing I've learned about the gurus who... what was that thing about separation of church and software.. ah, yes, evangelize about the latest and greatest buzzwords from Micro & Soft, is that they'll leave you high and dry and go on to the next set of buzzwords, to sell them to someone else.

I've seen how it works. When I came here, it was a job in a company which had a nice niche product written in VFP5, just being ready to migrate to 6, which was selling fine and keeping a dozen families afloat. It just needed polishing and, well, finishing a few missing parts.

Then they wanted to go big. They consulted a certain person from M$, who told them to go VB6/ASP/ADO/SQL/COM, completely omitting the fact that VFP6 was capable of creating COM objects, and communicating with SQL server. Then they hired a VB/SQL guru, who "proved" that VFP is so much slower than VB when it comes to... nobody remembered what. Of course, he ran that "proof" before two of us experienced Fox hands were aboard (thanks to the bombing, I arrived there months late).

In the end, development took too long, cost too much, and the VFP product was left with fewer and fewer people to maintain and keep alive. Last six months I was actually the whole Fox team there.

You may have noted I used the expression "last six months". The company sank. The guru has abandoned ship long before that. Though, I think he was not a guru, he was an artist.

And now, three years later, where is VB6? Morphed beyond recognition. ADO? Nah, go Ado.net.

And where is Fox now? Getting into version 9. I'll stick to it.