>If you did not try .NET yet then the problem was, you listened to them without checking if their complaints of being unsatisfied are worth your attention or not.
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>The problem I see is the assumption that people have not tried NET, or have not appreciated what it can do.

My suggestion is that you dive to the waters first and you will exactly know if the complaints are valid or not. Just make sure that you dive at a correct posture else you will get hurt.

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>The fact is that VFP is *far* better at NET in certain areas. Those areas may not matter to you, but that does not make you more qualified to comment on those areas. In 2005 I provided detailed reasons why I considered VFP superior in certain areas. NET prophets scoffed at any reported deficiency as usual, but senior MS people agreed.
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>My latest effort is to assess SSCE as a NET replacement for VFP cursors via Linq as proposed by various luminaries, but it appears that you can't access SSCE via Linq.