Thanks for the update, Parag,
That's really good to hear, and very reassuring. I've actually spent quite a bit of time in the last few days trying to figure out what I could possibly do to make a switch to something else. Maybe I'm a loner in the new world of DBMS, but I still find ADS's level of support for VFP files invaluable. Almost every day of my coding includes some use of Visual Foxpro to do mass updates of data files using a few interactive commands instead of writing specialized code in Delphi to do the same one-off jobs. It's just a really productive combination of tools that would be very difficult to replace.
While I'm extremely happy to hear that engineering is working on an update, I do have to mention that it's surprising that the ADS team doesn't seem to start work on such updates while new versions of RAD Studio are in development at Embarcadero. It seems like other major tool-makers are ready almost immediately when the latest Delphi is released. I've always suspected that they have access to pre-release versions so that they can start building their own new packages early. But, I guess that ADS could be exceptionally complex and just needs more time.
In any case, I look forward to being able to move up to XE8 along with ADS in the near future...