>> I especially recall handling some questions from attendees that were really very good questions but whose acurrate answers would take volumes to present.
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<s> I particularly remember a discussion with had ( in Toronto? ) in 95 about logical fields defaulting to false rather than null. I think of you every time I deal with three-state checkboxes. Nulls are tricky beasts indeed and I think introducing their use was a part of VFP you explained particularly well and that was one of the more mystical aspects to a lot of dbf folks.

There was a lot of good thinking going into the evolution of the product. I think the introduction of access and assign methods was a real step in the right direction. I know that Mike and Toni completely rewrote VFE from the ground up to coordinate with the release of VFP 6.0

But there were also some amazing blind-spots on the VFP team. I still remember a stunning conversation with Randy Brown regarding the view designer completely breaking views with more than one join and trashing VD-designed views when they were editing - in the view designer - in certain ways. He said the VD was never meant to handle "complex views" (i.e. more than one join ) - evidently equating it with the Query builder of FPW which everyone grew out of immediately.

Since I never believed in anything but view-based apps in VFP I really was pretty amazed. Fortunately Dan Goodwin and Ed R and Sawyer and Schumer were already taking up the slack. Again, an example of community tool builders who were never subsidized by MS to develop the product.