you can build awesome stand alone/File Server based applications with MS??? These are not the types of apps that you will see in Microsoft Promotions. Its a client/server - DNA world. And, VB is MS's strategic tool for this. However, we VFP developer's have not been left out in the cold as we have the ability to create middle tier objects that can participate in Windows DNA.
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>With all of these improvements, should you rely on 1 tool? No.
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>VB developer's are encouraged to use other tools - most noteably Visual Interdev. The same is true for VFP developers. Fact is, no matter what you primarily develop in - you should have other tools in your aresenal.
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> Unless you make the comittment to go to TechEd - you don't have the right to bitch. What sense does it make for MS to spend money putting on sessions when the attendance will be almost nil. From a business standpoint - it makes zero sense.
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Pardon me, John, but that is clearly a heavily biased opinion and I also don't think it holds water at all!

The fact the YOU *do* TechEds immediately makes you biased.

Since when has "making the committment to go to TechEd. . " been a "rule" for permission to criticize???
If the TechEds are so poorly attended, maybe just maybe MS ought to re-think the approach. You clearly believe in them, but it seems pretty clear that countless others do not.

Look, MS has the KB, which seems suitable to many people. But I contend that the vast majority of people either don't even know about it or find the bulk of the articles poor and error-prone and far too specific.
It would not be reasonable to tell someone that they can't be considered to be a FP/VFP programmer if they will not refer to the KB articles. What is even more unreasonable is that MS seems to rely on these poor articles in lieu of proper product documentation.

That you know Robert Green is good. That you written much on FP/VFP is good too. But this opinion sure has to lead one to wonder??

Jim N