>>For those VFPer sitting on the .NET fence, I just discovered this guy's blog and thought I'd share it here. I'm not trying to stir up any trouble, but, its interesting stuff and some of what he says had me laughing out loud.
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>>Check it out
http://dotbloat.blogspot.com/>
>Perfect thing to top a good day. For the first time for the last ten years, I took the Labor Day off - barbecue, beer etc - and this was the spiritual layered cake to make it complete.
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>Even if 80% of what he says is false, the remaining 20% is enough to not touch dot net with a stool-dipped pole. Can't subclass visually? Have to write a constructor for every class? Wow.
Like anything else, you take the crunchy with the smooth. Changing inheritance is much easier in .NET, partial classes add functionality unknown in VFP, and the VS IDE - whatever its shortcomings - make VFP 9 look like FPD 2.0. I think a lot of his points are well taken, and I'm sure if the same resources had been put into VFP it would be a very different story. But VS and .NET, however imperfect, can certainly be made to do some pretty amazing tricks I certainly can't do with VFP/VFE.
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