>>>>I'm trying to instantiate a form (OK that's a VFP term, I know!)
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>>>Actually, it's not a VFP term. It's an OOP term and perfectly alright to use in .NET. I use it all the time.
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>>>In fact, one thing that drives me up the wall is the tendency I've seen in lots of posts and talks for saying "new up" instead of "instantiate". That just sounds ridiculous to me, but maybe that's just my opinion. ;-)
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>>No, it's not just you. I had not heard "new up" before and am now grinding my teeth appropriately. Thank you for bringing it to my attention ;-)
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>>I have heard "man up" and "lawyer up" and am semi-OK with those, but jeez, programming is supposed to be a somewhat scientific process. Terminology should be a little more precise than "new up" IMO. What's next, .Gimme() instead of .Get()? ;-)
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>>(BTW, hoping you are semi-OK with "semi-OK"....)
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>LOL, I will have to try that sometime:
>this.oCustomer.Gimme(custID);
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>Ya know, it has a ring to it.

Living where you do, you might appreciate this. Years ago Wayne Willingham, a FoxPro guy in Dallas, came up with a Texan dialect of FoxPro. Two I remember:

DEFAHN WINDER
SHOW GITS

Another guy, Ted Roche, did a preprocessor to handle a pig Latin dialect of FoxPro. Obviously some of us have too much time on our hands ;-)