>It's kind of interesting though how screwy the .Net common controls are implemented. They obviously used the Win32 API model not the ActiveX model and many things take a lot of code to do right. THey're also not very fast, which was a big surprise to me. Lots of flickering etc. even with moderate amounts of data...
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>Some things change, but don't necessarily get better, huh?

If you work thru all the samples, including the 101 VB downloadables, there still is a lot going for it.

We would be able to put some more legs on VFP if we had the same, particularly when it came to imaginative UI's.

What we call "hacking" in VFP, you get for free in .NET (like sortable Grid columns, for instance).