>What are you talking about, Rick?
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>Your write service and tier programs. You are probably the greatest MS inside outsider that ever hit the firewall - but lets be clear - you do not design, write or implement end user GUIs and file structures - you market (I guess from the way you're painting the board, that your business plan is moving from ASP to NET) and write tier tool modules for developers.

You don't know squat about what I do, Terry. I manage several desktop applications including one commercial product all written in VFP. These applications use data extensively and use a Fox UI to present it.

>So I need some convincing from you in this regard - you have a narrow yet deep understanding of a little piece of the software universe. You've done real good at it - but I have not yet seen any proposals or support for those of us developing desktop GUIs. Even when I had questions about FOXISAPI and IIS, you were never there, except to talk around possible alternative solutions using one of you products.

>Lets be clear - if a prospect needed a house/book keeping project specified , designed, bugeted and scheduled - you would be one of the last people I would expect to see there.
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>Are you writing desktop apps now as a sideline? Maybe there's some databinding comparisons you've made with the GUIs for your tier engines - but those GUIs are a lot different than the GUIs and responsibilities of a full blown end user accounting interface. Aren't they?

Why should that make a difference? n-tier design princicples apply the same way way for desktop applications as they do for Web apps.

You're right I'm not about to build a desktop accounting app, but that's not because of the UI issues involved, but because that's way outside of my specialty (accounting?). That doesn't mean that I don't build business applications.

Regardless you never did answer my question. What are you talking about with databinding? You're very quick to jump on issues with non-technical comments, but what do you mean by 'databinding is not meant for developers who work in the trenches' type statement?