>My experience stops where I had to dig into how you would do the following in .NET.
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>Did you ever had the pleasure to create a flexible factory with .NET. A factory where you have a table (whether DBF, CSV, or XML), with meta data in it. In one of the columns there is UDF code in there that in VFP you simply could execute with EXECSCRIPT() or a macro. I've seen pages and pages of code and that even never touches the power of a one or two page VFP solution.
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>And how about retrieving some base set of data from the SQL server and use that data for data munging operations? Sure LINQ can some of it, but it utterly limited in many respects.
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Walter, Walter, Walter... When are you going to stop spouting nonsense about a language which you know nothing about. Have you looked at Dependecy Injection frameworks, reflection, IOC containers, etc. All can do easily what you're saying it can't. Our flagship (former VFP app) has millions of lines of code in VFP, and has been/is being ported to .Net. The times are comparable to VFP in operation. We are handling datasets with 100,000's of thousands of records and have experienced no stoppage/slowdown/or points of no return.

So before you start spouting your nonsense, learn a little bit about the language.