>Pertti,
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>GREAT analogy with the 500 lbs gorilla that doesn't know how to eat bananas. That's precisely right. I don't think data interaction was a high priority in the infancy of .Net. Data as a whole has generally been something you connect to tentatively and not natively to all MS products.
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>There are some former VFP gurus who took to bad-mouthing the product in comparison to .Net....I only needed one comeback - "ad-hoc three table joins"
You got to be kidding. How do they do that, really?