>>Could you tell me in what situations you prefer VFP over VB ?

When I need to build Win32 apps that need a rich UI, I prefer to work with VFP. And, when I work with VFP, I do take advantage of the local cursor engine. For raw data processing, VFP has no peer. Then again, raw data processing does not play a big role in C/S apps. Sure, you may have some data munging, but usually not full-blown data processing...