Andrew MacNeill - AKSEL Solutions

Saw a tweet come through on SW Fox - the dates have been booked with Southwest Fox 2011 on from October 26th-29th with a post-con going through to the 30th. Twitter / SWFox Conference: Southwest Fox 2011 is offi ... It doesn't look like the main SW Fox site has been updated yet but I'm sure it will be shortly. FoxPro VFP

Ken Levy has an interesting post up on his MashupX site since early last month. Ken Levy's Blog _ MashupX Visual FoxPro Strategy at Microsoft The post goes into some fascinating details as to the history of Visual FoxPro at Microsoft. Most of it is well-known or obvious (making VFP.Net would break backward compatibility - which is what MS did with VB.Net as well) I guess more details can be shared now - when VFP 9 was released, " the amount of sales for all versions of VFP combined annually was less revenue than Microsoft sales of Visual Studio in only one day" It would be interesting to know however if some of those companies who were out there working on a VFP-like language in .Net were "persuaded" to stop their efforts, as some have suggested in various forums. Well worth the read. The FoxPro community is what keeps VFP alive (thanks to VFPX and other initiatives) - and there were some members of that community inside of Microsoft at one point. As he n