>I have an '88 Red Cutlass Supreme International ... not your "father's car" (Oldsmobile) ... and the girls love it; they think it looks "beautifull" (even tho GM has killed it).
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>That's the way I look at VFP ... The "VFP team" seems to lack the proper direction, but I'm still tooling aroung with VFP 7.0 and making some good friends. Frankly, I think .NET is ****; it's just another piece of software and a Java ripp-off ... and most customers don't know the difference.

VFP8 to me has proved the "essential" upgrade, it has some very nice features that do Fox justice.

But saying .Net is ****, that just isn't true, fair enough it's a Java rip-off, but in the OO world .Net is not a bad thing.

I think it boils down to what sort of apps you develop, we have started to develop more OO software and VFP does fall short in a few areas, and these will only push people to turn to the likes of .Net (not just .Net obviously), so I don't think it should be dismissed, I think it has its fair share of advantages.

This is of course, excluding using Fox's native data-engine, I'm talking about using VFP as the front and middle layers of an application.

Kev

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