Hank:
I may be able to make it (though traffic at that time is bad), coming from MIA.
Need address and directions. You can send them privately if you want or answer here for Fla. lurkers that might be interested.
Alex
>Hi Max,
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>just noticed your reply.
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>The original title was (is): "Let's See .NET Do This!" I guess Joe didn't want to incite too much fury. <s>
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>What I will talk about is how VFP is optimized for the developer, from data access to OOP implementation to IDE design. I will demonstrate the tools I use in development, by building a client-server application in 1 hour:
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>-- Visual ProMatrix (framework optimized for rapid development)
>-- xCase (ERD -- extensible, data-accessible, generates backend)
>-- xCase2VPM (glues xCase and VPM, generating most views for an application and much more)
>-- ProSysPlus Libraries (extends VPM; utilizes extra information generated by xCase2VPM) and Builders (integrates our extensions of the VPM DD into the IDE)
>-- ProSysPlus Project Manager (integrates the DD and VPM into the production management process)
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>The reason all these tools are possible is because VFP is such a powerful development environment. Give me a couple of years fulltime and I could rewrite my parts in .NET (a year to "become one with the .NET" and a year to write the stuff).
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>So, I'm really challenging the .NET people: don't just give me 130,000 classes and tell me I've got everything I need. Give me a development environment as developer-friendly as VFP. And until you do, admit that VFP rules. <s>
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>Hank
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>>I just received an email from Joe Hommick inviting to:
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>>Friday December 6, starting 5:30 pm.
>>Visual FoxPro vs .Net by Hank Fay.
>>Hank will be discussing the merits of Visual FoxPro vs .Net as a
>>development platform. This event is being termed the "War at the Shore 3
>>1/3"
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>>For your information, the old Gold Coast VFP User Group morphed into a more generic GCUG focused in MS technologies and obviously, .NET.
>>We had -as much as I remember- 2 previous "wars at the shore", SQL Server vs Oracle and Windows vs Linux. Very entertaining.
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>>But for this one I'm not sure of getting it. I'm a rabid VFP fan and user, but comparing both as development platforms seems to be a little bit counterproductive. Or not? In any case, Hank should have all the ammunition he can gather.
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>>Hank, may you comment about it?
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>>Max
