>Subject: Has anyone bothered to tell JFast? >About MSs' decision to not issue VFP 10? >Any reaction from them?
I have not talked with anyone associated with JFast recently, but they have seen the same roadmap that all of us have seen and have had opportunities to see new features that are coming in Visual Studio Orcas as we all have had (you can get the latest March CTP as a free download to see how LINQ and other data-handling features are shaping up). Also, I wouldn't be surprised at all to hear that they have had enough discussion with Microsoft to not be very surprised at all at this point. Frankly, any of us who have read the roadmap that was issued almost two years ago shouldn't be surprised at Tuesday's announcement. With the continuing official support from Microsoft until 2015 and with the ongoing community efforts to support and enhance VFP on CodePlex and on all the forums, we all certainly have a long lead time to add other tools to our repertoires if we deem that necessary or useful. Personally, I've been piddling with .NET for almost 4 years already and have built a couple of small ASP.NET projects for customers already. I've done a PHP project and I'm spending considerable time right now exploring the new LINQ features in .NET Orcas and how they can be leveraged to provide embedded data language in VB and C# that can talk not only to SQL Server data but also to VFP (via OLE-DB) and other database backends. Meanwhile, I make my living doing 90% VFP work and expect that to be the case for several years into the future. There is lots of VFP6 to VFP9 upgrading work, moving apps to client/server, adding web access to VFP data, reusing VFP app logic by packing it in COM objects, and many more such scenarios that involve extending either the life or reach of existing VFP apps. I don't expect that to change anytime soon. PS -- You can read my report and reaction to Tuesday's announcement on my blog. David Stevenson http://talkingfox.blogspot.com -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.446 / Virus Database: 268.18.12/724 - Release Date: 3/16/2007 12:12 PM _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
