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>>There's never been a tool like VFP.
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>No, that is not correct. I am sure there are others development platforms which I am not aware of but certainly WinDev does everything that VFP does, better than VFP in almost all cases, and then x100 more things ... easily. And, it is does them in a very similar way - so much so that I believe the roots of both products were all probably the same xBase model. Any claim VFP had to being unique has not been valid for very many years, certainly since the last 10+ releases of WinDev which would be back to version 10 or 12 or so ... at least.
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>Disclaimer: Not promoting WInDev - I have zero interest in that. Just stating the facts. I imagine there are other dev tools as well but cannot know them all of course.

Jos, after reading so manu good comments by you, a couple of years ago I bought WinDev/WevDev/WinMobile and I developed one application... and it was a nightmare... I will not use it again and the sole application I developed I wish I could write it again in other language. Now I forgot all the problems, but the project will get CONSTANTLY corrupted, which forced me to bring the one in the source control several times a week! Also among other issues (granted, many were probably because I was learning) but I have this combo box control that will randomly crash over and over again, took me forever to realize that if I changed the type from "Loaded in memory" to "Direct Access" then it would work without issue, but I lost a couple of weeks trying to figure it out, as I thought the problem was my query, but I found very weak that the whole IDE would crash like that.

Too bad for I like all the features it has.