>>>>>>>the Entity Framework is pure evil in its current state.
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>>>>>>>Yeah. And L2SQL never did and presumably now cannot hope to work with SSCE or any non-MS database.
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>>>>>>>BTW, have you checked out Etecnologica? Their latest compiler boasts textmerge, meaning it should be approaching a viable web server option. Theoretically it shouldn't be so tough to create a migration path from WW scripts to NET.
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>>>>>>Just my guess but I bet it will be a cold day in hell before Rick does more than check out Etecnologica.
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>>>>>Why?
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>>>>I know I am being presumptuous by speaking for him. My thinking was this.
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>>>>1. Rick is a tool maker, not a tool user.
>>>>2. He seems to like things done cleanly, not kludges.
>>>>3. He moved on from FoxPro years ago. He was among the first among us to embrace .NET.
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>>>So you consider Etechnologia's stuff to be a 'kludge?'
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>>That was not the best word I could have chosen. It may in fact be technically elegant. But the last thing anyone but diehards need is a way to keep FoxPro alive. It's way past time to move on.
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>Your comments continue to eschew your bias towards anything but VFP. The reality is that VFP may indeed be necessary for some of us who have made such a huge investment in it.
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>In my particular case, jumping to .NET would require perhaps a decade to convert existing applications that are revenue producing and viable for the next 10 years in their current incarnations. And that re-write would generate no additional revenue while admittedly perhaps giving them an insurance policy against extinction.
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>There are certainly many alternatives to choose from and many of them may be worth investigating before committing to .NET. I don't feel compelled to buy into the MS bandwagon just because they say (or others say) I should.

John, I understand your point that we are not all in the exact same situation. You have a huge investment in VFP code (vertical apps, I think). I do not. I need to find jobs and the VFP jobs have become few and far between, at least where I live. Have found some work as an independent the past year or two but seem to run into more and more knuckle draggers still using FoxPro. (NOT the current client -- pretty darned sophisticated).