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>Here's a question for you (and everyone else) What's wrong with using the Form designer and the native controls ???? Do we really need to create classes.>
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>When I came into VFP I was already a VB programmer. I already knew about PEMS and was ready for OOP. What about people that were new to VFP. They had to learn OOP, DBC, PEMS, ActiveX and a bunch of other stuff. We should have started with just the Form Designer and said start here. Learn OOP later. For those comfortable with OOP, hey dive in.
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Rod, I totally agree with this. OOP has a great place, but since VFP can be used without OOP, there are better places to start learning. The DBC, triggers, valids, etc come to mind. When people new to VFP ask me what order they should learn things, I put OOP at the bottom of the list.