>Markus,
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>I too love VFP Weaktyping but eventually 2-3 years from now won't COM be fading out of M$ radar. By this I mean more stuff will be available for .net programs and not for us (I am not doomsaying but causes me to wonder) and I'm not even sure I should care ?
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>My question is not making VFP a .net language but running it like "Excel" a language written in .net or better running on .net just like we have today.
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>Word, Excel are programs that will run ? on .net but how can they be strong typed????
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>jp


True. But then again: If you want something that is practically as close to VFP syntax as you can get within the .Net environment, just use VB.NET. This is not entirely the same, but especially with things like the VFP toolkit for .net available, it's pretty close...

Markus