>But if you studied it, you'd come to the conclusion that implementing design patters is way easier in VFP than in .NET, because VFP is about data and thus meta-data.
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>As a follow-up, have you looked at .NET Generics? They make it easier to implement factory patterns. <s>

So are you telling me, implementing it without is more difficult? Nope, I've not looked into it, but is it to overcome issues that have to do with strict typing ??