>Hi All,
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>I'm currently retraining in E-commerce taking Visual Basic 6. My Instructor keeps insisting that Visual Basic is miles ahead of Visual Foxpro and will remain that way. From what I've seen todate Visual Basic wants to hide everything properties/methods/events from developers and only expose what they want. Does Visual Foxpro have the same capabilites and taking a step back first, why is it such a big deal to hide things in the first place ?
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>thanks,
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>Don

Hi Don,

is a difference that doesn't make a difference a difference? Depends <s>.

VFP is practically oriented: it does what one needs it to do in order to accomplish practical tasks. Are there esoteric tasks, such as thread management, that VFP doesn't handle? Yes. Do we very much care? No. If one needs such capability, one would write the .dll in an appropriate language. I've never run into the need; which doesn't mean the need doesn't exist given a selected context. But it does mean that the context doesn't appear very often while doing business data programming.

Hank