…and boy, does it look good. I can hardly wait for next June, but I’ll bet it’s worth the extra 6 months to get it right.

Just wanted to remind the locals that Richard Stanton, of the VFP development team, will be demonstrating some of the new reporting features in Europa, the next version of Visual FoxPro, at the next meeting of the Seattle Visual FoxPro SIG.

Several years ago, a former PM for VFP said something to the effect of “if you’ve been asking for something for the past three releases, and it isn’t there yet, take the hint!” Well, the community kept asking, and I guess they finally wore them down. :-) Features that have been announced publically include access to report objects at runtime, new output types such as HTML, text rotation, multiple detail bands, and a hook so that you can replace the Report Writer with your own designer.

Hold on to your hats, folks — we’re going for a ride next version! :-)

I was pleasantly surprised to see VFP8 featured prominently on Microsoft.com today. If you went to the Product List and clicked on Developer Tools, you arrived at a page when VFP was one of the main links.

I’m not sure who I should be more annoyed at: the author of this letter (scroll to the bottom) to the Seattle Times today, or the editor who decided to run it.