>Hi,
>I've been recommended that this is a good place to find experts in Visual Foxpro. My boss has given me the task of evaluating Visual Foxpro for possible new jobs. He's had one or two people say how good it is &, being on the nervous side for using new stuff, he wants me to find out what is bad about it. So I thought I'd try asking the real users of the product. I assume the majority of people here will be able to tell me all sorts of good things, but just like that awful interview question "And now tell me about your worst qualities", I'd like to pose the same question about Visual Foxpro. What is going to make our lives difficult if we chose Visual Foxpro ?

The problems cited with the DBF security are somewhat resolved in VFP 7 with Database Events. You can prevent tables that are contained in a VFP Database container from being opened by 3rd party products using ODBC. You can go so far as prevent their opening by anything other than the application designed to use that database.