Well, at least the fog in Redmond is starting to clear. Now that key
language people are coming around on the usefulness of FoxPro's data
handling, it's now just a matter of time before their new-found
appreciation has them implementing one feature after the other.
What's important for us is that we don't get stuck having to re-write
our applications again. It's just too easy to imagine MS doing something
like building a better FoxPro than FoxPro but with a different command
language/syntax/paradigm that would force us to re-write to use it. The
word irony comes to mind, given that we chose the right door in the
first place. But we're going to need more than just a comforting word:
we're going to need a truly functional translator.
Fortunately, MS has time to do this right. Let's hope that's what
happens!
Bill
> Note there's a link to post comments on this article. This is
> a great opportunity to gain additional press VFP.
>
> <quote>
> Fox in Microsoft's Tool-Suite Coop
> By Darryl K. Taft
> August 26, 2005
>
> Microsoft's Professional Developers Conference is expected to
> be a coming out party of sorts for the next version of Visual
> Studio, code-named Orcas.
>
> Primary among the new features in and new direction for Orcas
> will be advances in how the toolset handles data, sources said.
>
> </quote>
>
> Link:
> http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1852979,00.asp
>
> Malcolm
>
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