I wonder how many who voted to remove VFP from Visual Studio are now using .net? Would they recommend the same today?
>>I'm hoping that it is simply that this is below the radar and others will see this thread and take a closer look. If this all works (and it appears that it indeed does so far) it is truly something worth diving into.
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>>I REALLY would like to see MSFT's take on this. Did someone make a blanket statement that it couldn't or
shouldn't be done and everyone took that statement as written in stone? Did this group of guys just stumble onto something? I find the latter more difficult to believe and think that they deserve kudos for getting to a point that MSFT
implied was mpossible or not worth pursuing.
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>>Perhaps the subject line of this thread doesn't accurately reflect the possibilities...
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>>Shouldn't someone be
shouting this from the rooftops by now?>
>Required reading:
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http://fox.wikis.com/wc.dll?Wiki~ShouldVFPBeInVSDotNet~softwareEng>
http://fox.wikis.com/wc.dll?Wiki~ShouldVFPBeInTheCLR>Thread #
469094 (beware, it's longish). Note Robert Green's words: "The community has made it pretty clear to us that they don't want VFP to become a .NET language, because
what you wind up with really won't be Fox. Do you think you will feel differently a year from now when we are hard at work on VFP 8?" (message #
471559 )
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>Message #
471748 by John Stewart: "Given that ADO.NET is the data mechanism for .NET languages, VFP.NET would lose many of the attributes of Fox.".
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>I may keep digging for more .refresh() calls.
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>During the search I found thread #
442470 ... but that's completely out of context. But the overall tone shows how times have changed.
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