/*DNAunion*/ I'd say it's in the process of dieing. Visual FoxPro used to be included in MS Office (as an alternative to Access)...not any more. Visual FoxPro used to be included in Visual Studio...not any more. Visual FoxPro used to have a multitude of job openings posted at internet job sites...not any more. National book stores used to carry several different books on Visual FoxPro in stock...not any more (at least not the ones I visit...they stopped after VFP 6).

By the way, I received the same kind of "ridicule" from my university's professors when I informed them that I programmed in Visual FoxPro at work.


> I am a visual foxpro programmer, once I said in front of a university teacher that I am creating a POS software, he asked me in which language, I replayed in VFP, the he told me why not you do it with VB, VFP is a dead langauge. And I hear this sentence from more than one person, especially VB programmers and teachers.
> I know that Microsoft is developing VFP and still working on it. and there is a an attempt to connect it with .net package, but in other hand I heard that microsoft will stop working on VFP in 2005 and it will concentrate on .net soultion..
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> Many says thet VB is stronger than VB, But I could not find any thing that can be done by VB is cannot be done in VFP unless you want to create Rel Alert 3.
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> So my question, is VFP is gonna end in the future, should I prepare my self to the future and transfer to VB Database programming ?
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> Samir R. Ibrahim
> IT manager
> Wilco s.a.r.l


"Every software project takes three times as long as your best estimate, even if you apply this law to it." Pratt's First law