>You mean Visual Notepad is an existing product that has all these features?
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>I thought you were posing a hypothetical question.
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>Even if this is the case I think my previous response applies since VI is the tool included in VS that does most of these things.
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>I don't get the creation of VFP prg's. If you mean the creation of just about any text file then I can see the inclusion, but then what good is it from a developer's perspective if you can't test-debug within the same environment.

Crescencio,

I think you missed the big <HUMOR> </HUMOR> tags Evan figuratively put around this post. It wasn't meant as a real deal, he was stating satirically that Notepad could be marketed as a big cross-product development tool by pointing out that all of these things are just plain-old text.

Point is, he was playing on the joke that people have on their websites where they put "Developed using Notepad" as a slam against the sites that put "Developed using FrontPage."

IMO you should cut Evan some slack--its Friday. This thread was never meant to be taken literally, you missed the joke I think :)

Best,
Bill