>Thanks Mr Asif,
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>This clears lot of queries which were in my mind, Infact I have few more questions..
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>The compiled code which Native compiler generates will be faster in all machines, I mean, say if we developed the application on 486 and are running it on pentium or viceversa. The speed will be same ??

Of course a Pentium machine will execute the application faster than a 486. But it is the rendering of the forms on the screen on all machines that will happen without the kind of waiting time we see on VFP apps that concerns me.
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>Delphi is not available with me, so I can't chk it..
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>I have used C++ in dos environmnet and no doubt programs were very fast and very small in size... But don't you think it takes more time to develop applications in C(++) ?? Pls correct me if I am wrong as I'm not having Visual C++...

If you have a robust set of libraries that define a given application framework, and have sufficient experience with the framework, development time should be about the same as a VFP app. VC++ does have a Visual development environment, but its not as nice and easy to use as VFP

Delphi 3 C/S on the other hand gives you a development environment that is close to VFP. I estimate it will take me 6 months to know Delphi enough before I can drop VFP.

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>Slow execution of VFP programs I have also faced, specially form loading but I'm using VFP 3.0b and I've heard that in VFP 5.0x they have improved that...

Yes. Lists and Grids are much faster. However form rendering is only 30% faster. Low-level fiile I/O speed increased 100% in my case.

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>Pls advs. your comments...