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>Doesn't VB need to have its variables all pre-defined or does variant work sufficiently close enough to VFP's ..ehrrr.. 'relaxed' <g> approach to variable management to make it possible? I'm thinking that macro substitution would make VB choke a little. Perhaps not as I'm not that familiar with the product...
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>Macro substitution would be a no-go in .Net. But, there are other alternatives. As for variable types, variants are represented as object types. With some of the pseudo-strong typing that VFP 7 has, migrating code to VB .Net is probably very "doable"...
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>I think that there are some UI features I'd like to see from VB into VFP and some of the low level stuff as well.
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>How much low level stuff would you want? VB .Net is capable of free-threading. The whole apartment-model threading stuff is gone. My guess is that VB .Net would probably be sufficient for most business applications.


John,

Quick question .. from the above it looks like the EVAL() statement can't/ won't be in jscipt.net. I use it sometimes...

John Powers