>Educate me. Perhaps everyone would have a better understanding if you could >give us a real world example where VB and Access are preferable to VFP.

Reason 1: There are no real DB-intensive operations going on. So, Access will work fine. Also, we are not talking millions of records here, only thousands.

Reason 2: There needs to be some level of security in the DB. Access has it - VFP does not.

Reason 3: VB is a much lighter-weight UI than VFP.

Reason 4: And this may be the most important one: The client wants VB as the front-end, Excel as the decision support tool, and Access as the data store.

Since I can work with these other tools, and it technically makes sense to use these other tools - and that is what the client wants - that is what I will use.


Simply put, it isn't a VFP only world out there