>You're saying that if you and your friends don't see it, it doesn't matter or isn't real?
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>First, I have seen it. Sure, it's real. What I am saying is that a large number, including those who used VFP for years, don't place it in the "deal-breaker" category. Will I be glad that those who need it, will be able to use it? Sure. Have I myself had to work with a dataset that exceeded memory? No. If I raised that point at a .NET User Group meeting, I'd expect a large number of shouts, "write a stored proc!!!" ;)
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>And show me a single message where the data spanning issue is given as an excuse not to learn.
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>Over the last few years, there have been posts to the tune of "I'll learn .NET when it's ready". If you don't recall these (and I'd be surprised if you didn't), and if you REALLY want me to dig up the posts and identify the message IDs, I'll send them to you privately and you can do with them as you please. I'm not trying to openly play "gotcha" here with past messages - the key point (and the question I raised that you didn't answer) here is that those who have learned incrementally are in much better shape and more likely to be productive than those who wait for that genetic match.

hmmmm, that would imply that one has adopted .NET a long time ago and went through the difficult time of having to work through data handling issues and lost productivity and income there. Unless you're working for a contractor this is not productive, certainly not for me having a huge VFP application to maintain and develop.

You'd better set the milestone somewhere and possibly hire some .NET people to help you on converting the application. There is no better way to learn a language to see how the result compares to the original.

Walter


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