>>Hi Ryan,

Hi Strahl, ;-)

>>Well, you can if you build it yourself, which is not very hard. Take a look here:

OK but if we are talking about dbf apps (which is what Jordan raised) then you cannot seriously contend that even your work is as easy as using a form over several buffered tables or VFP views.

>>Both Windows forms and especially ASP.NET's native databinding is still primitive even in 2.0. Luckily .NET gives you the tools to improve the functionality and make it work the way you want to... In the end building my own actually results in something that is more flexible than what I can do in VFP.

I'm disinclined in 2005 to build my own home or roll my own 2-way data binding... so you'd better commercialize your databinding work!

>>And how do you do Web databinding with VFP? In WWWC or ASP classic? Well, ok WWWC has some tools that can make things easy if you know how. But ASP + COM has 0 tools for databinding, so even what little .NET 1.x does it's still a lot better than nothing.

OK. But a slice of mouldy bread is better than nothing as well. ;-)

>>Slowly some of the influence that Yag, Ken and the rest of the VFP team has is finding its way to the right people to affect changes. But unfortunately all of this is a long way off - certainly not in 2.0. This is mainly because of product cycles - YAG who's probably the biggest driving force, has been there just long enough where his input is starting to make a difference.

Yep, they're talking about 3.0 if I understand correctly.