>To me this conversation has been mainly about VFP users trying to map in their mind what they have been using with VFP to .NET. If there are weak points in .NET, it should be, and it is, OK to say so.



Well as a professional programmer I'm sure that you want to take advantage of the strengths of the new language and not do things the old way. When I stopped programming in VFP, I left VFP techniques, the VFP toolkit for .net and all other such thoghts behind. I wanted to learn .Net not .Net with a vfp twist. The move to .Net will require a shift in thinking about how data is handled. That's why most of the .netters here are espousing stored procedures. Most of the processing should take place on the server and almost none on the client.

So you can continue to think about .Net in VFP Terms or you can move on like a professional programmer and think about .Net in .Net terms.

My usage of YOU in the above is not meant to single you out. It is a generic usage.