>>>The only reason that .NET is as good as it is is because of excellent Visual FoxPro programmers who assisted the .NET team to try to make some sense out of the garbage they were working with prior to FoxPro people helping out.
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>>>That's my one political statement; eso es todo que querria decir acerca de esto.
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>>Don't you think that's sort of insulting to the many members of the .NET team who are *not* VFP developers? I am glad the VFP team has brought some data handling improvements to .NET but that's hardly the whole product.
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>It could be taken that way, but that was not my intention; it is a fact that because of FoxPro developers being a part of the Visual Studio.NET team, we have ended up with a much better product, specifically when it comes to data handling, and it will be even better in its next release beyond the 2005 version. A lot of credit goes to these FoxPro gurus for their contribution to .NET; if they had not participated and you did not have the qualities which they brought to it by their common sense approach to "data handling", I would not have been interested in the product.
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>When you use the older tools such as the older Visual Basic versions, and you use FoxPro at the same time, you feel as if you have been bestowed a gift from God in regard to FoxPro, because the older VB was really quite immature in data handling and a pain to use.
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>FoxPro has truly been a fantastic product all these years and it has only gotten better.

I had a copy of VB 1. My first thought was "what is it"? :) Even VB 6 was a pain you know where!

Basically “I am a mercenary”. I use the software development tool that management approves with the knowledge that they have no clue about reality or programming, and I accept my pay check. :)