The big picture is simple. Regardless what you pick it'll be obsolete tomorrow because M$ will come with newest and greatest replacement. Also there's no guaranty that whatever you pick will be available on all Windows versions you support.

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>First of all I need to get oriented in the alphabet soup of the options. What are they good for or not. Which are basically legacy and not worth using for the first time, if that is the case.
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>There are two uses I can foresee. First to easily do OS type stuff from VFP apps that do not have a native VFP way such as running PKZIP without getting a black box of RUN command, assigning a letter to a remote drive, etc. I would also like to learn how to do batch files on steroids (Powershell and what other options?).
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>Mostly I am confused and would appreciate understanding the "big picture".
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