It's common knowledge here that a big part of Ken's role at MS is bring VFP like strengths with local data to .NET ...
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>>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??
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>I am lost here. What product is Ken playing catch up for?
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>>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..
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>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.
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>So how is VFP any "easier"?
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>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.