>>>>>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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>>Move to what exactly ? What is the sound alternative today ? Last time I checked there was nothing out there that beats fox.
>>(And No, NET could be the complement, but it is not an alternative)
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>>Did I miss something ?
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>Have you missed that most of the strongest Fox supporters and most successful Fox developers 5-10 years ago have already moved on to other development platforms?
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>YAG, McNeish, Strahl, Paddock, Eggers, Leafe, Massey ... it's a pretty long list. I bet every one of them has nice things to say about VFP, but somehow they have found alternatives. I'm sure you will too when it makes good business sense for you. Everybody's situation is different.
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>I'm currently living half in one world and half in another and that is kind of fun too <s> I get to feel really smart and experienced and reall dumb and clueless in the same day. My wife likes my .NET efforts as she reminds me any humbling experience is good for me <g>

Yes, I was taking basically in terms of my own situation and responsabilities. For many people NET is perhaps good thing as it
lands them new jobs and better career building prospects. For me personally, NET is not viable as of yet. Although it is kind of atractive in terms of rich visual pesentation capabilities, so I am really attracted to it from that prospective.

As far as database chores / heavy lifting, I see no barrier of doing it with Fox almost forever, (Good bless Virtual machines! {g} )
VFP can access/handle almost any bucket of records (Oracle,MSSQL etc) so as far as that dimension of development is concearned I still don't see anything more efficient then fox.

Now when it comes to visuals/data presentation then (unfortunately) I have to admit that Foxpro ain't really forerunner.
But then again, it never really was. It was always various shiny (pearls for girls / toys4boyz' {g} ) visual add-ons, presentation tools forefront, and then someone (Poppa/Momma FoxPro) doing donkey work behind / futting the bill for everybody.
I wander if this is going to change any time soon {g}

Cheers :)