Thanks for your comments, much appreciated.

Kev

>Hi Kevin,
>there are a lot of reasons. It depend what you doing.
>For a straight VFP developer like me who don't care about OLE, web stuff or the like, the greatest thing is Intellisense. One the one hand it gives you information about build in functions of vfp (do you remember all the flags of MESSAGEBOX?), On the other hand get you very simple access to the Objects and there props as well of the methods with there Parameters. Ssimple by entering "THISFORM." you get a list of all members, methods and props, and you can do this all the containers down.
>
>It is very simple to maintain (have a UDF? add it to the table with all Para's). Even the workarounds will be easyer
>Example
>There is a bug in TEXTMERGE() [a new function]. It could be solved be adding chr(0) to the parameter of the function.
>By simply changing intellisense
>
>I enter
>

>TEXTM(
>

>and recive
>

>STRTRAN(TEXTMERGE(+CHR(0)),CHR(0),'')
>

>the cursor where it belongs between "(" and "+"
>
>If you spend some time on understanding, you could do a lot improvement to your work beyond that what is on your fingertips without deeper understanding (what is a lot too).
>
>There is also a bunch off new and altered functions, have a look inside MSDN.
>
>On the other hand it solves some bugs but you will get some new. (SUM(importance_of_bug/version)=const.)
>
>What do I miss?
>The Setup Wizzard is gone. They add a crippled version of Installshield Express, it's not that simple than before, you need some time to understand it.
>
>HTH
>Agnes
>
>>Hi
>>
>>I need a list of reasons to upgrade to Version 7.0!
>>
>>Can I have some suggestions for the boss.
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>>Thanks
>>Kev