I know what you mean. Although VS has no relation to VFP (writing a builder in VS is a gargantuan effort, for example). And there are good (and growing) Java scripting languages (starting with Groovy, but mainstream scripting is coming to Java). But even with all that, none of them, .Net or Java, are VFP, in terms of data access, in terms of UI modifiability, and in terms of ease of working with objects, both native and interop. That's why I'm hot about the eTecnologia effort: it gets me into the .Net arena, but I lose nothing.

Hank

>Yes, I remember that now. BlueJ. I thought about pursuing that, but it'd be like a fish out of water for me. I am too indoctrinated with Microsoft development tools to walk away now. Maybe after I die, and if there is Java in Heaven, I'll do it then, but not now. :)
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>>Perhaps your cousin meant BlueJ, which is an interactive learning environment for learning Java: http://www.bluej.org/
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>>Hank
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>>>My French cousin, Ludovic Champenois, is one of the stars at Sun and loves JAVA, of course. He siad the best way to get started with JAVA is by getting something called JAVA Blue or Blue JAVA. You know, that doesn't sound right. I thought about doing that route, but it seems so complex, but so is .NET, frankly. I'm happy with C#, ASP.NET, VB.NET and SQL Server and some occasional FoxPro work.
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