Hi Craig

>THis is documented in the Readme Addendum at http://msdn.microsoft.com/vfoxpro/downloads/updates.asp.

If this is by design or not: usesless is useless.


>Intellisense alone is worth the upgrade. ...

As I wrote before, intellisense is a matter of taste. I'm very lazy and see the point in intellisense. But it is rubbish. A simple WITH.THIS statement an all is gone. I do a lot with classes and containers and WITH.
What is that stupid to show parameters for methods inherited and not for methods within the class edited?
I have sometimes parameters within INIT. And what do I see : [InitParm1,[InitParm2...] Ha!
Add a nice long ALTER TABLE with "nocptrans error" and you will see something will autoexpand, something not. O.k. I can creep throug foxcode.dbf and change this. But why? Simple "F1" and I got the information.
I disagree that this is worth the money.

>... ALso, just because you don't use COM, XML, etc today, doesn't mean you won't need them tomorrow. You should upgrade and start working with these technologies so you are prepared when you need them.

You are right in the point of self education. But first, there is those strange people called customer don't let you play around. Anything has to be yesterday.
To the second, I avoid new "technologies" like hell. For the first the most will be dead within a year. I remember myself on MAPI and DDE and the time I wasted in this. All dead.
If I really need XML I start learning. Until then a CSV file is fine for data interchange, small and quick. No tons of overhead.

By Agnes