>No doubting that - I was also never in the camp that said you could not write an app in dotnet (would not want to return money for the things they paid me in java for<g>) - but I wanted to show that there are areas where vfp still is better than dotnet.

I was harping more on the quick development of throw away products, sometimes just reports for the board on last weeks data, and always with some new "twists". Creating a SQL-generator fwk in Python would be the next approximation: but thinking, generating and testing in the same language gives at least me a boost.

The "trash reporting" in DotNet can be fun. LINQ and Sql Server Reporting Services are pretty much my tools of choice for that now. SSRS took some getting used to but I didnt really have a choice as I still despise Crystal Reports from the countless hours of getting it to play nice with vfp.