Microsoft redesigned:
1. vb (scrapped)
2. access (sold to cheapest bidder)
3. SQL Server (back end of choice for .NET and VFP developers)
4. VFP (microsoft's best client development tool (works well with LARGE
datasets in VFP OR in SQL SERVER if additional security features are
needed))
5. .NET (microsoft's web development tool of choice)
<GRIN>
Virgil Bierschwale
http://www.bierschwale.com
http://www.itspasttime.org
-----Original Message-----
From: profox-bounces .AT. leafe .DOT com [mailto:profox-bounces@leafe.com] On Behalf
Of Bill Arnold
Sent: Wednesday, August 31, 2005 3:23 PM
To: 'ProFox Email List'
Subject: RE: Nice press for FoxPro from Microsoft
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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