>Actually, seems like I having to read more every day, especially as I have been evaluating new products to replace some stuff I had in the past with VFP.
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>For the immediate future, I am leaning toward Servoy as I am requiring full support on the Macintosh and also iPhone in a VFP re-write I am involved in.
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I am terrified that I will need to step out of my MS comfort zone at some point. I have heard the word "Servoy" but at present it registers more as something sounding like a Tsarist title than a technology <g>

Good luck with the mac stuff. I would think having iPhone chops can't be a bad thing.


>>>I had to laugh when I read your posting here Charles, the part about the ET book that is 900+ pages long. It reminds me of years ago when I would be on vacation and read those big books sitting next to the pool.
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>>But now you can do it on a Kindle ! <g> So now you don't read them? You have vowed to eschew new technologies? You are still programming Clipper? You're retired? You have underlings who read them for / to you ? You have made a deal with the devil do absorb all new Microsoft technologies in return for promising you think they're cool <g>
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>>I spend most of my energy plotting the timing of just *when* i'm going to get excited about new stuff ( cf story of old bull and young bull on a hill overlooking herd of heifers <s> )
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>>>>I make no secret about being a framework guy and a sucker for third party tools. ( I have a fuzzy warm spot for things that make me a lot of money )
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>>>>Long ago, Cetin suggested Ideablade's DevForce to me but only now as I am transitioning to C# and have fallen in love with WPF and the Entity Framework am I really seeing that DevForce 6.07 and its Entity support is the wave of my future.
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>>>>And most impressive is the incredible level of documentation !
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>>>>And apropos of that : DevExpress has been a constant source of delight - both in their amazing documentation, training videos, samples and support.
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>>>>It is a joy to see people really doing it right.
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>>>>I loved what I was doing in the VFP/VFE days, but VS 2010 and these two tools have made all that seem like the days of writing Applesoft.
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>>>>BTW, Julia Lerman is a goddess. She first got me excited about EF in .NET 4.0
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>>>>http://community.devexpress.com/blogs/seth/archive/2010/11/08/video-julie-lerman-on-entity-framework-4.aspx
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>>>>Good article(s) in the always good Code Magazine :
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>>>>http://www.code-magazine.com/article.aspx?quickid=0909081
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>>>>Her book :
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>>>>http://www.amazon.com/Programming-Entity-Framework-Building-Centric/dp/0596807260/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1295547023&sr=1-1
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>>>>Her videos :
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>>>>http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/data/ff191186
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>>>>It was only after going through this stuff that I started to appreciate how cool the stuff Ideablade was doing in DevForce really is.
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>>>>Hope this helps somebody else looking for "what's next"