John (yes, it's me),

While I must admit to be in the learning phase of VB, I must say that, from what I have seen so far, I must concur that VB is equally as "RAD" as VFP.

To me, OOP has little to do with "RAD", especially when I read the virtually all here who do lots of VFP with their own (or bought, I suppose) frameworks tend to make a copy of their 'base' framework classlibs for each separate project. At the very least that suggests some apprehension regarding the quality of their 'base' classes. This also obviates the benefit of inheritance, since each separate project would have to have their specific classlibs 'upgraded' and the project re-compiled in order to implement desireable changes.

Many here wish for "intellisense". Isn't that a prime 'component of "RAD"?

I have a long way to go yet before I can claim any proficiency with VB, but at least now having seen some of it, it is nowhere near as bad as I had been led to believe.

Cheers,

Jim N

>Hi Michel,
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>Why does the fact that VB being object based make it less of a RAD Tool? It's interesting, many folks jump on the OO aspect of VFP when comparing to VB. Yet, if you looked at many of the apps those folks write - many of them are'nt really OO anyway.
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>With tools like FoxExpress, I could employ many RAD Techniques in Fox 2.x.
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>I just don't understand the conclusion you are making here.
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>I could easily make the argument that in some respects, VB supports RAD better, Intellisense, better Windows API Integration, etc.
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>I think many folks have issues with VB because they do not know how to use the tool. If you attempt to take a VFP mindset to VB ,you will run into problems. The same would be true for VB developers trying to use VFP.
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>>>3. VB owns 80% of the rad tool's market. Somehow, 80% if the developers out
>>> there are not casual users. This only goes to support point one above.
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>>That's an interesting point. I thought we couldn't use VB to do RAD. I used it at several occasions so far and I found it far from being a RAD tool. I searched for RAD product and couldn't found one either. It's true it might be difficult to do RAD as we do it in VFP as it is object based.