Your agenda to help us poor Foxer's understand the errors of our ways and adopt your mindset. The point is to just keep working, in whatever makes you happy and productive.

Bob

>What Agenda? i'm not a microsoft shareholder or anything. I don't make any money on any .net VFP, office sale that make.
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>>So it's your intent to take threads, not answer the questions, and then push your agenda. Nice...
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>>I guess it doesn't matter what the question even is, the answer is to move to .Net, just answer every post then! Why have a forum at all, we know the universal answer.
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>>Bob
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>>>I read teh question but what I did wasn't a answer I just add another question now u can tell me I shoudl have done that in a new thread and for that I can tell you may be right.
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>>>>You obviously DID NOT READ THE QUESTION! The original poster, who we havn't even answered is already doing VFP9SP1 work (based on the info in the top of the message) So its not a matter of learning VFP. Also he does not say if he is even working on a project, just that he is interested in the ratio of SQL/DBF use in foxpro.
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>>>>Yes .Net projects fail, so do VFP projects, so do Java projects. Just because you use .Net does not increase your chance of success! MOST good programming languages can do MOST projects reasonably, all dependant on the talent of the programmer.
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>>>>As to answer the question, I have heard that 50-60% of VFP programmers use a backend other than DBF's on some of their projects, and that SQL Server is the most popular. I use both depending on the needs of the customer.
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>>>>>Robert what is an expert can u tell me?
>>>>>even before saying anything else let me ask you why did the .net projects failed? do you know I bet wasn't cause it was .net language, since a project can fail on any language all depends on the people working on them.
>>>>>I didn't move into .NET cause it was popular, there are many times when i'm working that I just fell like starting punching the computer cause VS.NET crashed or something similar, as I said before there are people that still developing in Cobol and foxpro dos/windows but do you really thing that developers that are moving aways from those languages should spend their time learning VFP? instead of another language like .net java whatever?
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>>>>>>Boy you must really be an expert to be able to tell by a one line question that a project should be ported to .Net, same thing with other posts from you (all the sudden) that .Net does it better. It was interesting at the
>>>>>>SW Fox conference how many developers were swamped with work, many of them working on failed .Net projects. Mike Feltman did a session on various OOP languages and .Net was already in decline. And if you want to move just because somethings popular, Java is MUCH MUCH more popular than .Net, so obviously it must be the best right! I hardly heard anything good bout .Net except from Rod!