>>>I was surprized this morning to see my name in the March issue of Software Development! I wrote to the editor on their review of VFP and Visual Studio. Of course they cut my original letter down but they did print me saying 'Use the right tool for job' comparing VFP and VB for database applications. Pretty cool!
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>>Good work, Dave! Do they have a web URL we can check it out?
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>>BTW, we got our DOL Award - one little plaque for the whole team, and only Mike got to meet the Secretary. Pretty skimpy! :(
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>The letter to the editor is not on the web site. So, here it is:
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>Printed in the March 1999 Software Development magazine (http://www.sdmagazine.com)
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>Visual Footnotes
>Dear Editor:
>I’m writing in regard to “Visual Studio 6.0 In-Depth, Part Two” by Andy Barnhart and Roger Smith (Hello World, Jan. 1999). I think Visual FoxPro deserves a higher rating. Its performance and feature set are more than adequate, and Visual FoxPro is the best in its class as PC database application development tool.
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>I agree that Visual FoxPro is not fully integrated with the rest of Visual Studio and has some redundant tools. Considering that you can buy Visual FoxPro by itself, it’s nice that Microsoft includes these tools separately from Visual Studio.
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>I disagree with Smith’s comment that “Visual FoxPro 6.0 has developed into a worthy rival to Visual Basic when it comes to building Windows-based client/server and Internet database applications.” I would not consider Visual Basic for a client/server and Internet database application, except for the front end. Use the right tool for the job.
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>David L. Crooks
>Via E-mail


Looks like VFPDA in action. {grin}