I am now ignoring it, given that it is out to show that VFP is lousy.
Anything can be cooked up when the unknowing are asked to agree to 'conditions'. Especially when honesty has reached the level of 'it depends what the definition of is is'.

I hope it is also agreed that all tests will be run on a 128MB PII-600mhz.

Anyway, I intend to watch from the sidelines.



>I hope he doesn't 'let it go' because I think the thread can have some real information that may be useful. If you're not interested Jim please ignore this thread rather than only make disparaging comments so those of us that are interested can reap the benefits.
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>So the real basis for this thread is a statement said long ago here... ".NET sucks when it comes to handling data VFP is much better".
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>>Pity, really. I thought we were well beyond that. Apparently, some of us aren't and wait patiently to extract some form of 'revenge'.
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>>I thought initially you would be wasting your time. Now I see you'll be wasting my time!
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>>Let it go, Rod.
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>>>I want to address one more comment<g>
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>>>>>A more fruitful debate, imho, would be to simply, honestly, and openly >>list the top pro's and con's of each tool, and to list appropiate target >>applications and end-users for each development tool. Perhaps even expand >>beyond the VFP/.Net duality and include other powerful development tools >>like Delphi, Java, PHP, Python. Why not have developers post their >>success stories about their best applications? Why were they successful? >>Why was the tool chosen? This would be much more useful imo
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>>>This is all subjective. The basic premise that we are disussing is this...
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>>>".NET sucks when it comes to handling data VFP is much better"
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>>>This is an opinion of some folks here. I want to take an objective look at how each platform handles data. There are a number of mechanisms for handling data in each platform. How do they work? I am not looking to sell .NET people in this discussion will take a look at the mechanisms for dealing with data in each platform and judge for themselves.
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>>>For instance one item to discuss is the concept of DATA SESSIONS.
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>>>FoxPro's method of managing data in an isolated manner is the concept of a DATA SESSION. You can open and maniulate the contents of table(s) in an individual data session.
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>>>.NET's method of managing data in an isolated manner is to encapsulate all data into an object known as a dataset. You can open and manipulate the contents of table(s) into multiple datasets.
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>>>This is the type of info I am talking about....
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>>>ROdman