>>I personally do not wish to have the whole thing rewritten only to have it integrated with the CLR. OTOH, i see too those IT guys praising/putting money on .NET just because the sound of it.
>>My conclusion? What's the big deal? Just name the next VFP version VFP.NET and that's it. Is there a rule somewhere that states that everything with the .NET suffix should be included in the Visual Studio suite??
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>This would obviously not happen. The only lanagues within Visual Studio compile to managed code (the CLR) and integrate completely into the Visual Studio IDE shell. The next version of Visual Studio does not have .NET in the name. While you will still have .NET Framework, ASP.NET and ADO.NET, the next version names are Visual Studio 2005, Visual Basic 2005, etc.

Even better, VFP 2005 then...