I will definitely agree with you on your last section. VB seems to have better handling and control of most external libraries outthere, but, is this really so? Shouldn't VFP do (supposedly) the same?. Are people happy with just performance and not speed and interface?

Probably Gates & Co. should think about building VB as a function library for VFP 7.0 (Hey, there goes my wish list for VFP 7!!)

;)



>>So, really, what's VB really good at and why does it have such high demand?
>
>I will try to answer this last question, but keep in mind that I am NOT a VB programmer:
>
>High demand:
>- VB is easier to learn
>- VB, VBA and VBScript are almost the same language and this gives a large spectrum of applications
>where it can be used directly
>- VB is promoted by MS
>As for Toronto/Ontario area, VB is not in such high demand and I still wait to hear about a company that did something really serious in VB.
>
>I found it to be very good for small COM components, as a thin wrapper for database-ADO tasks, small test programs,
>Word and Excel automation, and other small tasks.
>
>Vlad