>Seems you're the one being argumentative here, Gary.
>When you say to Robert "...you are simply not qualified to make that case..." I ask myself how .NET could ever have taken hold anywhere, there being NO "qualified" individuals at its inception to make that decision.

I don't see what this has got to do with anything?

>I say good for you that you are well on your way to mastering .NET. But just because you've caught the new religion is no good reason for you to go around belittling others who curently are sticking to their existing religion (and your previous one).

I am not "belittling" anyone - I merely suggested that you cannot base a decision on the efficacy of .NET in three months. That was the basis of my entrance into this thread.

>You've made it clear that your opinion is that only .NET is sensible in ANY business programming.

You must be reading a different thread. I haven't said that at all!

>Later you said you didn't need a local data store and you did keep some stuff "in XML".

No I actually said that I hadn't found the need for a local data store in any of the .NET applications I had done so far, and also in my last VFP applications. As for your 'you did keep some stuff "in XML"' comment, that's like saying that Config.fp is "local data". You are going from sublime to ridiculous.

>When I asked if that wasn't a data store you went snarky.

Nope, you went off on a rant about my use of the expression "XML" suggesting that my use of the term "XML" was in-appropriate (like saying "English") when really, you knew what I meant and were just splitting hairs.

>I know I'll move from VFP some day. But there's no way I'd say now that it WILL be to .NET. Should I, or others, choose something other than .NET I guess in your book they'd be unqualified to have made that decision.

You can move to whatever you want - it makes no difference to me. Just make sure that if whatever platform you move to is bigger than VFP, that you give it a little longer than three months to make your mind up.

>Why do you feel that you have to jump on anyone who happens to support the OPs post?

I don't feel I have to. My issue is with three months to learn .NET, and staying with VFP. The only person I have extended this discussion with to any extent is Bob Pierce who has demonstrated all by himself that he has insufficient knowledge about .NET to argue about it on this board or advise his Boss about it in an impartial way. Other than that, the only other "suspect" that has surfaced at the mere mention of anything that could be considered anti-Fox is you. You must feel a lot of fear Jim?

>Why can't you just let those (us) poor souls go on living in neverland?

Live there as long as you like Jim. I don't know about "neverland" though, I think you are in cloud cuckoo land.

>Seems your newfound religion has a tenet saying that you have to spread its goodness anywhere, anytime, at any cost.

I have said it takes more than 3 months to learn .NET and that concept seems lost on you Jim. If you think that's an attack on VFP, then you are over-sensitive.

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