Mike,

>>Third party products can make it easier to do, but are NOT necessary to create a text file.
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>Are you sure? I haven't tested, but was thinking about it a couple weeks ago. Does the script need to be compiled in VID?

Nope. ASP is just plain text. Script is just plain text. HTML is just plain text.

>Also, you need some back office software for the ASP page to be run. Though MS isn't a third party.

Correct, but not to create the source of the page.

>But the point is, without violating your NDA, and in 200 words (hopefully less), why should you know how Active Server Pages are supposed to built in VFP on the desktop test?

IF there was a question about HOW ASP's are supposed to be built in VFP, that would be testing your knowledge of how to output a text file, wouldn't it? You could choose LLFF's, STRTOFILE, SET ALTERNATE, SET PRINTER... General test of VFP knowledge.

IF there was a question about WHEN to choose ASP as a solution, that would be testing your general knowledge of the technologies that every developer today needs to know, since the entire world is running to the web.

I say IF because I honestly don't remember if there was such a question on the test I took.

My suggestion is that everyone planning to take the DESKTOP exam should use the study materials at fox.wikis.com (category Certification) and concentrate on the study group logs for the DISTRIBUTED exam. There was MUCH more activity there and comparing the test outlines, you'll see that almost everything on the Desktop is covered in Distributed.

That being said, I scored much better on Distributed than I did on Desktop, probably due to my recent focus on Web and Component development and relative inexperience in VFP in general.

I still think that anyone with much general VFP experience will do well on Desktop, but should supplement their reading with the current web-focused technologies and general analysis skills.

I don't think I violated anything there, but I lost count of the words.