>Martín,
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>I know it is not easy but I come back to a point I made a few days ago, Avalon is where the Windows desktop needs to be but users expectations are today and when Microsoft is touting interfaces like Office 2003, Visual Studio 2005 etc. we struggle to deliver. Don't get me wrong because you can do an lot with the VFP interface but its that final "spit and polish" that is always missing.
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>If the quality of the user interface assets was not an issue then why do Microsoft constantly improve (or even re-invent) theirs?
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>Again I don't know what the implications of the internal VFP plumbing are and would never claim to but MFC now has support for hosting controls and to quote the article:-
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>"Internet Explorer simply loads the Windows Forms control itself and treats it as a COM control"
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>Why would this not be a reasonable halfway house for people, no need resort to MFC or ATL for ActiveX? Can't the VFP team invite someone from the IE or MFC team to come have a look help them out, share ideas?
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>Regards
>Neil

How about extending the UI through the use of custom renderers and owner drawn menu/forms, then we could mimic office style menu/forms or anything we like etc.