>>The reverse is also true. Just because a platform like .NET can let one do something, it does not mean it is easy for everyone to do it.
>>So it is either .NET can't let one does this thing or it is a very hard to get it done. Anyway, both cases seem to imply the platform is no good.
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>>According to what I have read in this thread, it seems the developer was saying implementing "View all message" feature will block other enhancements...
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>Fine, twist the facts however you want to try to enforce your point.

Need more straw?

He said "seems"... that's an opinion declared as obviously as it gets. Now if that's too forceful for you, and you feel it's enforced upon you... just resist. Don't give in to the enforcement. Keep your opinion. You can do it.

Noise aside, let's recap the facts. Viewing the whole thread worked flawlessly and anywhere between decently and blazingly fast for the last eleven years (that I remember - probably even longer). The system was reworked any number of times, from VFP5 to VFP9, and this just worked.

Now it works via a workaround, in a limited way, not as a single click operation, and Michel did mention some complication he had. True, the response of the server on a single message is usually very snappy nowadays, but it's still a dozen times slower to retrieve 20 or 30 linked messages, because I'm not that young and my mouse finger isn't so fast anymore. But then about half of the people here would have the same problem, being slower than the computer. My 40 click-scroll-switch pane-scroll-switch pane-repeat cycle is still so much slower than the old click-wait 1-3s-scroll.

I don't know what's up, whether it's the retrieval of the records with longer memos or churning longer pieces of text into .aspx pages, doesn't matter, and anyway Michel is right for not divulging the details - we'd all jump in trying to help (or just join a discussion like this one ;) and he'd waste too much time and nerves dealing with us. Bottom line for me: dot net is great, just like anything else, for doing what it was designed for. Forums built this way are not on that list. Fox is better suited to manipulate data and long texts, IMO.

Of course, .net has the advantage - time, money, resources. It'll get there once.