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VFP methods you miss
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16/05/2013 11:40:32
Mike Cole
Yellow Lab Technologies
Stanley, Iowa, United States
 
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ASP.NET
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Coding, syntax and commands
Miscellaneous
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>>What methods from VFP do you miss in .NET? Anything that's awkward or not very straightforward for somebody with a VFP background? I'm thinking of making a set of extension methods geared for VFP devs and I've been out of it way too long to remember much.
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>STREXTRACT() and RIGHT() - I have a few libs I use that minimize this, but I really need to just add them as extension methods.
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>And _clipboard, although without built-in REPL (aka VFP command line) it doesn't come up quite as often.Hopefully whenever they ship Roslyn (although that seems to keep getting pushed back so I'm not getting my hopes up).

I'm thinking a living Nuget packages that has some of this stuff built in would be useful, but wanted to gauge interest first.
Very fitting: http://xkcd.com/386/
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