John,

>>Personally, when I think out of the VFP box, I look at C/C++, API, Windows 95,98,NT, 2000 features etc. VB only provides a very little advantage too me. It isn't simply worth the effort.
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>You may be the first person I have encountered that places the level of effort of VB above that of VC++...

It's because i was already familiar with C/C++ before I learned Fox. And as Erik has mentioned, C++ is a very good language to accomplish things that can't be done with VB nor VFP.

Walter,