>Hi JimN ---
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>I guess I'm really tired of being a pariah in the Visual Studio family of developers. Although VFP is getting some press, there almost seems to be an active discouragement on MS part to attract new developers or use VFP for enterprise solutions. And what really frosts my ass is that most of us doggone well know that VB and Access choke on moderate to large scale 2-tier apps -- this is where VFP excels. Now, all else being equal, VB is probably more flexible for n-tier. Still, VFP does what it does very well and there is absolutely no logical reason for it to be the poor bastard stepchild of VS.
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Sure there's a good reason. Mircosoft is good at making money. Why should you get for free (VFP distribution rights) what they can sell you (SQL) licenses. It would be silly of them to pour money into a product, that if fully developed would compete with a product that makes them as much money as SQL. The only way to get Microsoft to support VFP better, is for it to make more money. The best way to do that is to pay per seat distribution rights for the engine. We would screem if that happend. So, we kill ourselves.

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