I think it's the blessing and the curse. :)

Jeff

>I think the weakest link in VFP is the DBF. It is too light as it is easy to corrupt and lose data and memo fields.
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>>>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 ?
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>>While VFP has some warts that others have mentioned, I would add that taking into account all the warts, VFP is the most powerful GUI-RAD that Microsoft offers. The DBF backend is light, fast but capable, and dove-tailed perfectly into the developer environment.
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>>Folks here know that I am not an MS shill, so I will offer my 'wart': the view and query parsers have limited AND-OR nesting capabilities, and sometimes those have to be hand coded. I am on vacation right now, and not at work where I can access our own VFP knowldege base. If you want more info or an example I will be back in the office in a week after Thursday.
>>Jerry