>The hope is that after enough people tell you that this is better, you will forget how much easier development was and how much faster it was to develop with well designed and implemented environments.
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>Trying to defend wonderful new technologies that require many times the grunt work to implement compared to earlier technologies that went to great lengths to reduce the workload is laughable.
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>Yes - we are going backwards - just don't admit it.


I don't think we're moving back, WPF and Silverlight have much more power to make flexible applications than fox does. However, there is a steep learning curve involved. Billy Hollis says that 6-8 months is not atypical. During that time, you will react much like perti has; then one day, boom, it all makes sense. It is much like the days of moving from fox 2.6 to VFP 3...

It doesn't take a lot of grunt work to set up the communications, just different grunt work. You would have to jump through the same hoops in fox to set up communications through a web service and set up the data layer. I guess most foxheads forget the amount of work that went into their respective frameworks.