The Fox is dead. Long live The Fox.
From the blog:
On a DotNetRocks episode, Don Box was asked if COM is dead. His response applies to Visual FoxPro as well. Don replied, "COM isn't dead, COM is done." That is the best summary I can think of regarding this announcement. Visual FoxPro isn't dead, Visual FoxPro is done.
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Now, I don't think anyone is suggesting green-field development with Visual FoxPro, but any existing investments are fully support until 2015, and extensible with development tools that are under active development.
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Truth be told, Visual FoxPro development will continue beyond Microsoft's current product timelines, but it will not be called Visual FoxPro. Henceforth it will be known as LINQ, ADO.NET and SQL Server.
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Alan Griver gave a presentation on LINQ at the East Tennessee .NET Users Group in January, and he made the best association I've heard for the connection between VFP and LINQ. Alan said, "In Visual FoxPro, all data is converted to a common format called a cursor, and all data operations are made against the cursor, then updates are sent to their data source. With LINQ, we replace the cursor with collections of objects."
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I want to close with a quote from Visual FoxPro MVP Craig Boyd, "If Microsoft is trying to kill VFP, then they're doing a piss-poor job of it."
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