The Universal Thread Visual FoxPro Members Choice Awards 2001 is a recognition for the effort given by companies and individuals in regards to Visual FoxPro. Unless otherwise stated, the categories related to the effort given by companies and individuals as per the recognition of the community as of December 31st, 2001. However, a category such as "Best new product in the last year" related to new products which have been released in 2001 or near the end of 2000.

The award has run from December 8 to December 31st, 2001. The available choices have been selected by the community. The Universal Thread would like to thank the community for having participated into that award. The 2002 Awards will take place in December 2002.

Here is the list of all the winners. Congratulations to all!

Best framework (not including Web frameworks):	The MereMortals Framework
Best Web framework:	West Wind Web Connection
Best new product in the last year:	Voodoo Web Controls
Best conference:	Great Lakes Great Database Workshop
Best training company:	Takenote Technologies
Best Internet tool (not including frameworks):	West Wind Internet Protocols
Best magazine:	CoDe Magazine
Best Visual FoxPro book:	1001 things you wanted to know about Visual FoxPro
Best online support by a vendor:	West Wind Technologies
Best desktop tool (not including frameworks):	Stonefield Database Tookit
Best mid size utility:	DataClas/VFP
Best non commercial utility:	FRX2Word - John Koziol/Fabio Vieira View Edit - Steve Sawyer
Best surprise of the year:	Ken Levy joins Microsoft
Best non commercial contribution by an individual:	Evan Delay - Wednesday night lectures
Best conference speaker:	Ken Levy
Best conference new speaker in the last year:	Mike Helland

List of nominees in alphabetical order

Best framework (not including Web frameworks)
CodeMine
The MereMortals Framework
Visual FoxExpress
Visual MaxFrame Professional
Visual ProMatrix

Best Web framework
ActiveVFP
FoxWeb
West Wind Web Connection

Best new product in the last year
ActiveVFP
DataClas/VFP
Eeva Web server
Foxy Classes
RapoZine
Visual FoxPro Zipmaster
Voodoo Web Controls

Best conference
Advisor DevCon
DevConnections
Double Impact Workshop Tour Mega Events
FoxTeach
Great Lakes Great Database Workshop

Best training company
AppDev
EPS Software / West Wind Technologies
F1 Technologies
Oak Leaf Enterprises
Takenote Technologies
Vision Data Solutions

Best Internet tool (not including frameworks)
ASPVote
Voodoo Web Controls
West Wind HTML Help Builder
West Wind Internet Protocols
West Wind Store
West Wind Web Monitor

Best magazine
CoDe Magazine
FoxPress
FoxPro Advisor
FoxTalk
RapoZine

Best Visual FoxPro book
1001 things you wanted to know about Visual FoxPro
Client/Server Applications with Visual FoxPro and SQL Server
Essential SourceSafe
The Software Developer's Guide, Third Edition
Visual FoxPro Certification Exam Study Guide
WebRAD: Building Database Websites with Visual FoxPro and Web Connection
What's New In Visual FoxPro 7.0

Best online support by a vendor
EPS Software
F1 Technologies
Oak Leaf Enterprises
Soft Classics
Stonefield Systems Group
West Wind Technologies
dotComSolution

Best desktop tool (not including frameworks)
Crystal Report
Fox Extension Classes
FoxAudit
FoxFire!
Help Builder
R&R Report writer
RapidDoc
Stonefield Database Tookit
Stonefield Query
Visual UML
xCase

Best mid size utility
CommTools
DataClas/VFP
Foxy Classes
xCase2VPM

Best non commercial utility
Class Navigator
DynaZip Class - Wrapper Class for DynaZip Libraries- Mark McCasland
Easy: Windows Common Controls - Alexander Grigorjev
FRX2Word - John Koziol
Grid Highlighter - Nick Neklioudov
GridDragDropper - Nick Neklioudov
LS - John Koziol
My Property Sheet - Alejandro Sosa
TaxRIBuilder - Walter Meester
View Edit - Steve Sawyer
West Wind XML Converter - Rick Strahl
West Wind wwSOAP classes - Rick Strahl
eView - Erik Moore
mhHTMLCode - Mike Helland

Best surprise of the year
Ken Levy joins Microsoft
New VFP codename Toledo (selected by community)
Steve Ballmer video on Visual FoxPro 7
Visual FoxPro - First release of a MS product which supports Web Service
Visual FoxPro on cover of MSDN Magazine
Whil Hentzen awarded the FoxPro Community Lifetime Achievement Award

Best non commercial contribution by an individual
Evan Delay - Wednesday night lectures
Fernando Alvares - History of Visual FoxPro
Nancy Folsom - Certification exam chats

Best conference speaker
Andy Kramek
Calvin Hsia
Cathy Pountney
Craig Berntson
Doug Hennig
Drew Speedie
Jim Booth
Jim Duffy
Ken Levy
Kevin McNeish
Marcia Akins
Markus Egger
Rick Schummer
Rick Strahl
Rod Paddock
Roxanne Seibert
Steve Sawyer
Steven Black
Tamar Granor
Ted Roche
Y. Alan Griver

Best conference new speaker in the last year
Cathy Pountney
Hector Correa
Mary Hintermeier
Mike Helland
Roxanne Seibert