Hi Steve

The flack you are getting here in sharing your excitement about the Etechnologia stuff is pretty emblematic of the kind of thinking that has turned this "community" into one that teeters on dysfunction. If one mourns the stagnation of VFP, one is labeled a traitor, a turncoat or a spreader of fear and loathing. If someone like you expresses genuine excitement about something being done by clever people in the community to benefit VFP and give it a future, they are accused of shilling - how dare somebody try to promote a product that the developer thinks other developers should actually pay for.

I just bought the .NET extender today as a result of your message. (and I wouldn't care if you owned the dam company ) May it be a rousing success.



>Tracy,
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>Did you test the compiler or just the extender? If you tested the compiler I'd like to know what else you had in mind.
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>I'm not trying to be impudent, I'm just honestly baffeled. Using the compiler you can compile your VFP apps and run them as .Net apps. You can compile them as assemblies and then using MonoMerge or Microsoft’s merge tool you can combine them with assemblies written in other .Net languages and using the extender you can have direct access from VFP to all the .Net assemblies. These apps can run on several platforms and if you use strict typing, your VFP code will run 3 to 10 times faster. I have tested this myself and it is truly amazing. You can even debug your applications inside Visual Studio! I just don't get what is left? Not only that, besides 100% compatibility with VFP 9 he is extending the VFP language in some great ways. You will be able to use LINQ inside your VFP code to do things like query arrays and collections. You can have tables that have 1000+ fields and are greater than 2gigs. You can run this code in the 64bit world without having to be in 32bit compatibility mode.
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>What's not to love? I just don't understand why the VFP community isn't all over this...
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>Steve