Dear Bonnie

Having participated in a (small) dotNET Interface, I'd have to say there were some important difficulties in dotNET before the recent SP. There still are a few and dotNET desperately needs VFP-style Frameworks for reasons covered in the WIKI. If that is "bashing", so be it, time will tell whether it is fair or not. But we had the same complaints when VFP3 came out FWIW, some early adopters from 1995 will remember VFP3's severe memory leak if you requeried large datasets and some infuriating weirdness in the UI. That's the nature of a new design and early adopters know to expect a few glitches. FWIW, I'm impressed that MS moved pretty fast to try to fix the somewhat tiresome dotNET debugger glitch.

I think bashing cuts both ways. "VFP is a scuttled ship that cannot be saved" is one of many blatant bashes from somebody who is rarely reprimanded by authority figures for his FUD.

Regards

JR