>Let's design a simple web application and you do it using VFP9 SP2 and I'll do it in ASP.NET shall we? You do yours in the VFP IDE and I'll do mine in VS2010 or VS12RC (oh yeah - they're still making new versions!). We'll use the Northwind database (use MDB or SQL or put it in VFP database - developers choice).
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>Lets give a user the ability to pick a customer and then show him all his records in nice sortable grids. Let him edit current records and add new ones. Lets publish to a convenient webserver.
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>How much effort is there to do that in VFP9 SP2?
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>How much do you think there is in ASP.NET?

We just create the data access for the tables involved, then we pass some parameters, including the fields that are up-datable, the columns that are sortable (or all by default), set up access rights for the users, and that is all, the our base takes care of having the data in a grid with search, filter, navigation controls and add/edit capabilities, all done by my co-worker with VFP + WC. In the image I just posted a very simple grid that does all that you want, it takes 15 minutes to do it and then once in our framework it will take the css for the final rendering (it probably took me more time to erase the names and phone numbers :)).