>That's a sure way to have a bad app in .Net. Perfomance and maintenance will suffer. What's behind the scenes should be optimized for the language/platform.

Well Dorris, there you go. Re-engineer your application from scratch and you will have a "good app in .net. Performance and maintenance won't suffer". Never mind what you really need and what your users expect, and your clients are ready to pay.

>Most VFP apps are designed to use cursors (tables and views, basically the same thing).

A cursor in VFP is a normalized object in memory that can be sql'd (read joined) together with actual tables in the DB. I still want to hear the argument that this was a bad idea.

>Thousands of apps access .dbf files directly and use SEEK, LOCATE, etc and don't have a single SQL statement. .Net has an entirely different approach to data.

Craig, there is nothing wrong with having a new approach and electric cars are the future. But does that mean we should as of tomorrow close down all the gas stations?

I know I know, I am beating dead horses here. But I was really surprised how much effort has gone into learning VB.Net (from VFP), given that so much effort has been made to make it a decent programming environment. That being said, I'm glad I did the effort.