>>>In respect of productivity let me give you an example. Now assume you have not already built your own classes or tools because that would be an unfair comparison. We want to do a clean-slate comparison. Let’s say that in VFP you want to allow a user to browse a table. You want the user to be able to do all the following:
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>>>1) Sort ascending/descending any column
>>>2) Search in any column using sophisticated search options like partial and wildcard
>>>3) Search memo fields
>>>4) Filter the table on any column using sophisticated options like starts with, contains, ends with, does not start with, does not end with etc.
>>>5) Allow filtering on already filtered subsets
>>>6) Allow long fields to run over several lines or force onto one line only
>>>7) Copy the table
>>>8) Copy a row or multiple selected rows
>>>9) Copy a column
>>>10) Copy a cell
>>>11) Print the table
>>>12) Convert the table to Excel
>>>13) Convert the table to PDF
>>>14) Hide/show specific columns
>>>15) Move columns around
>>>16) Resize columns
>>>17) Change the font
>>>18) Change the colours
>>>19) Change the colour only of specific columns
>>>20) Have all design and layout/column changes automatically saved and reused next time
>>>21) Find the contents of a selected field automatically on the internet with Google search
>>>22) Here's a tough one; allow the user to move controls/buttons/etc. on the window around, i.e. re-arrange to suit
>>>23) Allow the user to add sticky notes to the windows for future reference
>>>24) … that’s enough for this example.
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>>>How long to build that in VFP? In WinDev you don’t code anything. You just drop a table control on a window, connect it to a database, connect columns to database fields, and all those features (if you want them) come along automatically. You can switch on/off the specific features you need/don’t need. This is just a small example. It is not whether you could build all this in VFP. You can. We did. The point is that modern development tools come with so many productivity enhancements that VFP has missed out on due to lack of upgrades. Now if you say well I have all the classes and 3rd party tools that allow me to do everything then fine. BTW, have you got a scheduler conrtrol? How about a Instagram control? Or a signature verification control? A Twitter control? Camera control? Video control? Want to know how your users use your app? Telemetry built in. etc. etc. Can you build it all yourself? Sure you can (maybe). How much time you want to spend on that … ?
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>>Crickets from the naysayers :)
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>...probably trying to calculate how long it would take lol

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