Kevin,
I had determined not to involve myself in this challenge. IMHO it is too soon. IMHO VFP and dotNET have different strengths/focus in 2005. I know you have disagreed in the past on the basis of your assumed superior knowledge, but I think there is now a consensus on this point. I had hoped you might withdraw gracefully pending MS's promised data improvements for dotNET. You might experience some public taunting for that, but VFP people are not stupid and you could expect to earn professional respect as well. JMHO.
Instead you've sought to impose technical barriers to hobble your opponent. Do you not perceive how transparent that is?
IMHO the initial challenge was fairly neutral. The task was a fairly standard one that will be familiar to many/most here. I say again: if you perceive that dotNET has certain attributes that yield a better result in the real world, include them in your entry and highlight why they are so useful.
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
