John,

>I don't think nor have I ever thought VFP in any way should be part of .Net.

>As far as having an advantage, I would not no that far. There is no distinct advantage to using VFP.

well I could name a few:

- Quickly develop database apps
- Royalty free runtime distribution (compared to SQL licences), making it a very cheap solution and reachable for smaller clients.
- No DBA needed, it's easy to install and maintain in LAN environments.
- On Lan environments it often is faster than any other (R)DBMS solution.
- On runtime compiling programs (Or using the VFP language in a Command Window Emulator)
- You can still develop DOS, UNIX, MAC and Win16 applications in the FOX language.
- Quickly migrating old DBASE apps toward fox.
- The xBase language provides DML commands that have no direct SQL equivalent and are far faster than any SQL solution. (SEEK, SET RELATION, SET KEY, SCAN, etc)

Do need to go any further ??

Walter,