Great Craig, it must be "fun". Actually, I also wanted to write all my middle-tier COM objects in VFP because of it's great data/string handling and use VB and web front end but our IT manager told me "How am I going to find someone who knows VB, VFP, SQL Server, COM, n-tier and most importantly our business process if something happens?" I replied "I consider it job security" but he didn't buy it.

>I am doing both file-based and n-tier applications, using VFP for the middle-tier COM objects.
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>VFP is extremely well suited for the middle-tier, maybe even more so than VB. Fox people are not the only ones saying this. In Jan, 1999 Software Developer magazine reviewed VFP 6.0 and said "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, as well as data-intensive components that you can use in a variety of enterprise scenarios." It then goes on to say "Visual FoxPro 6.0 may have a leg up on the other languages in Visual Studio, particularly when it comes to creating COM components that you can manage and scale with Microsoft Transaction Server." You can read the entire review online at www.sdmagazine.com.