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

John, I know more about development languages than you might think. And sure there are frameworks that specifically designed to plug into the weakness of a language. But why does it not come out of the box and is widely support by the language itself rather than having to plug into something else.

It is not what you can/cannot do with a certain language, but with how much effort, learning curve, and whether something comes out of the box. As in my example, I can build a powerfull factory in 100 lines of VFP code, including handling dynamic code execution, initialisation without having to deal with the complextity of circumventing type safety issues. It is ridiculous. See tracies link to C# 's announcement for a dynamic typing. Now anyone tell me why this takes about 10 years of .NET development to be considered??

As for your application, I cannot judge as I don't know, but given the comments you've been given up here in the past, I don't hold my breath.

John, If you can post me your code that for your factory, and I will post mine. Let the lurker see which one is more straightforward and judge whether I got a point here.