>>>>>Hi. I am interested in designing a delivery system in VFP7. The system would be small - 4 trucks and 6 deliveries per truck/day (furniture).. What i the feasabilty of a system with each truck being represented on the form and drag and drop (deliveries) among the trucks?
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>>>>>Thanks. Randy
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>>>>First of all - Why VFP7? Why not at least VFP 9 so you are not working on something too obsolete?
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>>>Second of all - Why VFP9? Why not .net so you are not working on something too obsolete... :)
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>>If your Uncle & Antie or some other fellow you know asks you for simillar app, you should by all means
>>suggest or even better undertake yourself and pursue full size NET application with MSSQL at the back.
>>Web based of course with latest WPF based drag & drop mirracles. (Just like 'Fabricam' {g})
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>>Never mind that it is 'slight bit' more expensive to write, and inquires some 'minor' maintnance costs, but at least
>>it is not written in some obsolete technology! ;)
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>>Unlike everything else in NET, - Money is NOT an object! {g}
>>Therefore no trucker should settle for less! Tight budgets are just petty excuses for cheap bastards staying
>>away from latest tech! {vbg}
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>>Cheers :)
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>Why oh why do I have the impression that you don't know a lot if anything at all about .net ?

I don't think he was trashing .NET. More like pointing out that when someone is given a programming task to do, it's only natural that they will look first at the tool(s) they already know. Doing it using a tool they don't know yet will indeed make the project take longer.