Hi Jeff,

>All of this is the result of finally realizing that there is the need for C# (a low-level language) to be higher level with respect to data and database app development. A recent remark on this thread about VFP RV's "Black Box" says it all.
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>Personally, I would hate to have to write the heads-down-low-level code involved with automatically creating an optimized combined UpdateInsertDelete statement on a disconnected recordset having a combination of Updated, Inserted, and Deleted records. I have better things to do when developing an app.
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>I find it laughable that the "Einsteins" at Microsoft took so long to come to these conclusions while VFP has had these capabilities for years. Maybe Hejlslberg was too busy "defining a sandwich".

Exactly... The more puzzling is why the programming community has been ignoring this for so long. Of course we as VFP developers knew, but until recently, and even today, there are whole vocal .NET (but outside of this forum of course also JAVA) tribes up here who deny this. I can only guess it is denial or total desinterest, or truly not understanding this.

Walter,