I went to my first VB user group meeting last night. The discussion was on file manipulation (both flat text file and dbf's) from VB. When they talked about dbf's and ways to access them they had to use third party products such as ardimus (spl). My question was why didn't/doesn't MS build in support for dbf files? At least for foxpro files in VB?

The discussion was run by a consultant who also talked about his recommendation for a 10 user database application. He would suggest MS SQL server rather then Access, VFP or VB using Ardimus or the jet engine. I didn't speak up because I was there for the first time and wanted to make friends. Any thoughts?