Some others to add:

Direct Win32 API calls
Create and Consume web services (SOAP, XML, WSDL, etc)
Server-side HTML web applications using drag and drop
UML modeling and refactoring
PDF, HTML, RTF, and text rendoring formats
Integrated support for rational rose
windows xp themes
share single database connections among multiple transactions



>Perhaps we should start by setting up a list of features expected from any programming language. Off the top of my head, here are a few features that might be interesting to compare amongst VFP, .NET, Delphi, Java, etc.
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>How easy is it to:
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Create forms
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Create reports
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Create menus
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...
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>Where is OOP included:
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In forms
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In menus
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For data access
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>How well is OOP implemented in general?
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>Is OOP easy to implement?
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>Execution speed:
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Data access
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Tight loops
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...
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>Cross-platform:
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What platforms are supported?
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How easy is it to change from one platform to another (do you have to recompile, do lots of conditional coding, etc.)?
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>IDE features:
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Code syntax
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Intelligence (like the Intellisense in VFP)
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>Compilation:
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Are most errors caught in the compilation phase? Strict typing helps here.
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>Development time:
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How long does it take, in general, to develop a business system?
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A graphics-intensive application?
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Any other category you may want to code for.
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>etc.
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>>Hi all
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>>I know this is a real long shot, but over the last few months discussions seem to be getting extremely tense when it comes to comparing VFP to .Net, a lot of heated arguments tend to erupt from what some people seem to take very personally.
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>>I, myself, would love to have, to hand, some realistic differences between VFP & .Net and where the main strengths/weaknesses lie. I know it's been done before (successfuly? I don't know) and there is probably tons of material out there on this (or is there?) but I feel people need to be informed of why they are chosing a product they are chosing, NOT BASED on arguments generated in this forum, but rather decent laid out differences.
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>>I know you probably think I'm a fool and possibly tempting fate here but I would be very interested, without it getting nasty :-), to hear advice from experts from both sides, and it not to be a result of a stupid argument. I also understand Mr McNeish's book also covers this, but only on an introductory level, IMO.
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>>If anyone thinks it's a bad idea, let me know and I won't kick-start the discussion, otherwise I'll attempt to get things rolling.
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>>Thanks
>>Kev

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