>I have a lot of table driven 'things' in vfp.
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>I haven't gotten around to such things in c# yet. I have no idea yet how to do them.
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>I haven't said they were bad - but that I would avoid them as I would have no compiler help as in type checking, using a variable before it's initialized and the lot
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>I believe it's possible to do something like execscript(). I cannot explore this any further at the moment since my journey has just begun.
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>But - Dragan - how much of .net do you know ? To compare them is not always easy - the architecture is different - the horse and the car

I've read Kevin's book when it came out... five years ago. Decided to stay with VFP for as long as it holds, and then do something entirely different - and surely not Microsoft. Fool me once...

But I don't see dot net vs VFP as necessarily a horse vs a car. Maybe a more proper comparison would be between regular 35mm cameras on one side, and all of Polaroid/Idiotmatic/Photodisc/Throwaway taken together. Neither could do anything in particular that the other couldn't do in some way, or when it actually could, it was something that affected only a minority of users. Neither was technologically too different nor far advanced from the other; their differences lay more in usability for a particular purpose. And I won't tell you which I think represents which, because they can be used interchangeably as examples.