>Not sure what you mean by this statement? VFP doesn't play well with other platforms?? In what way?

Take the DATE in VFP. Now try to push it to ANYTHING ELSE. Oh do you have to convert the heck out of it first?


>Those 20 years have a lot of code and experience going for them. Why do you think they have Ken L. trying to play catch up??

I am lost here. What product is Ken playing catch up for?


>You must be talking about .NET here. Most people here(including EPS!) have commented that you typically need more code to write a .NET application because it lacks the functions VFP has..

Your kidding right? Once you write your data class it does the dirty work for you. If I want a table of data I make a single one line call to my bizObj with the dataset, tablename, and param(s) and it's there.

So how is VFP any "easier"?

Last but not least VFP plays poorly with XML with respect to schema and multiple tables in a single document. Or at least prior to 9 that was true.