>>>>Even if you don't have a business layer, a DataSet is essentially a cursor (or a group of them if you prefer). The other important piece is the DataAdapter, which sits between the DataSet and the database. It handles the DB-specific stuff. The GUI and the rest of the front end of the app can work with the DataSet without knowing or caring where the data actually resides.
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>>>Sounds like deacent n-tier aproach. But we had those in Fox since forever did'nt we ?
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>>>What we also had is choice weather to use ready-made stuff, build entire thing from scratch, use or not use it at all, and get by occasion with ugly grid entry form that took less then a minute to build. Although this is one of those things that actually plagued Fox, I would newer let go off that possibility.
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>>>I might start working with NET on certain projects, but I would never stop using FOX , for that freedom of choice alone.
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>>I hope none of my comments have been taken as meaning I don't like VFP any more. It's always been a great tool and it still is. For me, the problem lies elsewhere. I need an income. There are few if any VFP jobs left around here. I am not on the speaker/books circuit and if there is any market for custom built VFP applications in this area, I haven't found it. So I need someone to hire me. There are no VFP jobs and there are tons of .NET jobs. It's really that simple. It's got nothing to do with technology, or liking or disliking. As it happens I do like .NET, quite a bit, but that's not why I started down this path.
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>C'mon Mike. :)
>I am intrigued with NET as well, but simply live in different circumstances. If I was to hunt for new job, perhaps I would be be building NET muscles as well, that is only natural thing to do. I have no axe to graind with NET at all, It is the vendor that I have problem with.
>They kind of left us in cold, and we are not in position to refuse their next sale.
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>NET on the other hand is an excellent job opportunity creator. If they rewind it few versions back, they might help quiet a bit
>US IT job market {g}, but that is exactly why I want to stay away from it for as long as I can. It simply cost to much.
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>Wish you success with NET. I am sure you will master it very soon.
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>All the best :)
>Sergioa

Thanks.

"Master" is quite a word there. I have read that no one has completely mastered all of .NET and I believe it. There are half a dozen main components and any one of them would take years to master. At this point I understand C# and ADO well enough to be dangerous <g>, now immersed in ASP.NET and expecting to add it to the list of somewhat understood technologies. The framework is enormous, hundreds of classes (thousands?), and that is something I could happily spend the rest of my working career trying to master.

The rest of my working career being until I'm about 88, by the looks of things <g>.