>Walter, my advice is to look at Linq for SQL. Yes it's early days but if the promised in-memory datasets offer similar features to a VFP cursor, this is starting to look like a viable progression for VFP people. It lacks change tracking at an entity level, but if you keep to a 2-tier structure as offered by a RV, change tracking is there. I'm assuming you'd want to do multi-tier apps if you started over in NET but that's a discussion for another day. ;-)


Oh I certainly will keep track of this new development. It certainly gives me hope this will evolve insomething more usefull than what has to be practised today. However, just want to keep all options open. If a data centric language will become avialable on the .NET platform, it certainly will warrant an investigation.

I'm not too fond of mutlitiered apps, just for the sake of creating mutlitier apps. There has to be a good reason for it. Currently in most cases I could handle with traditional C/S. Only with a few exceptions where we have to deal with external messaging systems (HL7, ASTM, etc) or internet connectivity we are doing the n-tier route. That does not mean we do not layer into multiple layers, but In many cases I just don't see the point in getting it into different tiers.

Walter,