Derek,

Ditto Nancy's message for me please.

>At the end of the day, these disimilarities between VFP and VB do nothing for the image of Foxpro. VPF definitely has advantages over VB in many areas, but small quirks like this only add weight to the argument over using VB instead of VFP.
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>As more and more products adopt these accepted standards, VFP moves further and further into the background, and surely this can only do VFP harm ???