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

You're right, had no clue it was a joke.

I initially thought he was proposing that a new product be included in VS.