It's not VFP/ FP that users hate. It's those grid solutions they dislike. Lazy or inexperienced 'consultants' that present themselves as software developers, are using grids to solve a data transaction service.

I was talking to a prospect a few weeks back. He questioned my use of VFP as a development tool. He had not seen any of my projects. He said:
"Oh yeah, fox pro is that program that has those frames (drawing a little box with his fingers in the air), we don't like those kinds of interfaces.

So blame the problem on con - artists or those developers that are under utilizing those frame-work products.

The problem is not foxpro - it's what the underskilled or un skilled 'consultants' are pushing to get that easy money from them end users by slaming a sloppy frame solution.

Perhaps an advantage of VB is the lack of proliferation of Frame-Tools. Imagine substituting a grid for a an interactive interface. Why do anything - just tell the user to enter data into Excel.

VFP developers should model their systems on popular, sexy desktop solutions rather than what they think they can get away with after a few hours piddleing around with a third party frame tool.

Any developer should learn how to write interactive interfaces and flow chart before they start pitching frame based solutions - they suck and they give VFP a bad name.

But thats just my opinion!
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>It seems that everywhere I go, folks hate FoxPro. The last comment I got was that it was a super version of a spreadsheet program.
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>We have a totally FoxPro environment in one department that handles litterally $100 Billion dollars worth of transactions a year. It works fine. The accouting package in that department is SBT which is written in FoxPro. Still, the community at large hates the application. I really get beat up when I talk with Oracle and SQL Server guys.
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>I mess around in SQL Server and Oracle. It seems to me that I have to buy and learn a third party product to get what I can get out of FoxPro. People have hated this product since I started using it in 1992. Hell Microsoft tried to push Access for years instead of Foxpro.
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>I am just wondering if we should change everything to some other product
>since the owners don't really endorse it fully.
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>This is of course, just my opinion as I know it to be! ;-)