Terry, you risk not being taken seriously now - or is that your intention? Your comments are parallel to replacing a red broom with a new white broom and considering the white broom inferior because the color is different and the newer broom is made from different material. Yet they both work identically, are just as efficient, and perform the same function. Are you changing the comparison parameters?

Tracy,

PMFJI, I've tried not to get too involved in this thread...

Terry is doing what I strongly suspected he'd pull. This is one of the reasons I turned down the RIO challedge. Accepting it meant giving a level of credibility to an individual with a clear bias against .NET. The notion of the "challenge" is just a pretext for him to continue with these anti-.NET rants - very very few qualified .NET developers are going to waste their time duplicating each and every little feature of RIO. And even fewer participating in bozo-like games or being jerked around.

But even sans challenge, Rod has made a big contribution there. Forgetting the app itself and the really questionable interface (and I'm being kind), Rod has demonstrated how basic data handling, data access, Winform techniques, and basic ineritance are handled. It's a nice app for someone who wants to see the basic structure of a Winform data handling app. His second download app demonstrates some of the common techniques you'll see in Fox (and other database) apps. Rod has gone far beyond the silly challenge.

And yet what is Terry stuck on here???? That RIO.NET doesn't have every nut and screw. What Rod contributed goes beyond that. How ironic, given who's got a loose screw right now.

I mentioned a few months ago I had a .NET "training" app based on a framework I built, and that I'd make it available some time. I'm finishing up an important deliverable this week, and after the dust clears from that, I'm going to do so.

Kevin