Mike, you are correct. No one understands data better than a FoxPro developer. We have been truly spoiled with the best database system in the world. I can't tell you how disgusting I considered Visual Basic for many years in regard to data handling; it just could never compete with FoxPro's native and SQL data handling functionality. No other database in the history of this world has been any better than FoxPro, hands down.

Once you have had FoxPro, and then you start to use these other development tools, you kind of get a bit peeved at how awkward and frustrating they really are; I am speaking mostly about native data handling. The other tools in Microsoft's .NET suite do a great job, but not in data handling. I have heard at user group meetings that the Visual Studio.NET 2007 (or is it now 2008) will have more of the FoxPro data-handling capabilities included.

Even SQL Server has taken things from FoxPro. Why? It is because the people who created FoxPro were way ahead of their time and were downright geniuses! No question about it!!!

In regard to Visual Studio.NET, I have found some really cool things about it. It seems much more easy to use now than when they it was presented it to the public. I have had two junior college classes in C# and absolutely love it. Some of our programs where I have been working the past almost 3 years are headed toward Visual Basic.NET over the next year or two and that is okay by me, but the guy inside of me who loves Visual FoxPro knows that it is far better than anything else, even better than .NET when it comes to DATA HANDLING.

I am using a junior college book for studying VB.NET just to be ahead of the curve a bit (I'm way behind), and I like it. This text book was written by one of my C# instructors, Anita C. Milspaugh with Julia Case Bradley and is called "Advanced Programming Using Visual Basic 2005".

I know that .NET will get better because of FoxPro's influence. I do not mean to insult anyone who is not a FoxPro developer, but the fact is that .NET is much better since FoxPro developers were in on its design. And, that statement is FACT!

>Good things those FoxPro programmers bailed out the .NET programmers!