Query data by a name is the challenge?

We can do that with a BAT file!

Many VFP apps (by developers other than me) are using OCX navigation. Looking up a name in a DBF reminds of exorcises in 1985 dBase II tutorials

We have a VFP app in download (RIO). Look at the app just to get field names. Don't look at the rest of the source code - you'll end up saying something like sub-standard. Instead - do what most VFP developers do - reverse engineer it from the EXE into a NET solution.

Just design your NET app to have corresponding fields - then make it behave like RIO!

One of the great things about VFP is it makes it easy to mimic other applications - show us you can mimic a VFP app - even one as sub standard as RIO!

"Hello World" samples have moved beyond name queries and grid high lights - just make it behave like RIO - but make it better.

It seems - I could be wrong - that you want to have a contest to see who has the "prettiest ugly pig". Thats not not a challenge - maybe there's a junior VFP UT forum where you could sell that - but come on - Hello World samples are more than name looks ups.

Do it with RIO - and like RIO - when the "hot navigator" is pressed - the data should scream through the edit controls.

Come on Rod - you want to sell us on NET - then impress us - find a NET developer that can mimic RIO and go from there - but don't give us these throw backs to the FP2.6 "Hello World" comparisons.

I don't care about big queries - I want sex appeal - scoped for little data sets like the ones my customers have - like most of our customers have.