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I have recently (the past 2 months) been working on a VB Internet Application. My company has recently hired (last week) a tech. lead for this Internet Team. This past week this individual has told me that VFP and ColdFusion were dead and has "knocked" VFP plenty of times.

Now I know that VFP is not dead and I know what a powerful tool it is. I have heard that rumor since I have been using it. I don't know much about ColdFusion or the company who maintains it, however, I used it once and was very impressed with it.

My question is, has anyone had experience's with these self-acclaimed VB experts and what did you learn from your experience?
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Scott,

In order for "these self-acclaimed VB experts" to be able to comment, they would have to know both tools. Looks to me that they don't.

Cold Fusion is an excellent system, and a competitor to Msft's ASP. It is certainly not dead while ASP is a dead end in a way as it is being replaced by Microsoft for ASP.Net

VFP, like VB are both part of Visual Studio 6 and the new VS.Net so neither one is dying anytime soon.

The important issue to me is to see what the application does and which tool would be best suited for the job. Both VFP and VB can do web stuff and be called as COM objects from either ASP or ColdFusion pages. You can easily also do straight VFP code in your web pages using tools like WebConnect (http://www.west-wind.com).

To do straight VB code (not VBscript as you do with ASP), you have to program using ISAPI technology, which, unless you have an excellent tool as Web Connect, would be a PITA.

VB will be used in ASP.Net when Msft releaset it sometime next year but for now you are SOL.

As I said before, it depends on the app but if it has to do with moving data, VFP is a better choice as it is optimized for data!

Just my $.02