The argument that vfp developers need ASP.NET(or something non-vfp) to do web development is just plain wrong. I think it can be accepted that ASP.NET probably make some aspects of web development easier than using .VFP. mtdlls called from an ASP.NET/ASP stub(or using west-wind) and has a performance advantage on huge web sites, but, the argument that VFP does not have web capabilities should be thrown out at the outset. In other words, VFP continues to be an all-in-one language that is comparable, more or less, in most aspects to .NET ...
>I am also very interested to know the difference between the two, but please, talk with a "technician" language :)
>I've seen a lot of words and "way to say" on other threads that I didn't understand because of my poor "spoken" english.
>I think that the people who will compare the tools must be a competent person (now, here there are a lot of competent on VFP, but on .NET?) and
>must talk without personal feelings about the one or the other.
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>The first thought goes to what you have to do with the development environment.
>Personally I develop desktop apps with VFP since the 2.5 version (Win 3.1!) but in the last years the web development is improving it's percentage (I've used WWC, ASP, and now ASP.NET), and last, in the next future (probably) I'll have to develop an application for the Pocket PC (which will be a "sub-set" of a VFP application the users must use on the streets for the data entry).
>I don't have a single application I sell in hundred of copies, instead many little apps.
>VFP is perfect because for the dbf's, the OOP, ecc. (all we know this :))
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>But, my experience is that, at the end, a VFP developer (pardon: me! :) ) MUST learn a .NET language, isn't it?
>The question that I make to myself in these days is:
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>"Is VFP so better than .Net in developing desktop applications?", because I MUST use a .NET language for the others kind of application.
>I really DON'T WANT to use something other than VFP, but VFP doesn't do all kind of applications!! I have no choice!
>It's very comfortable to have a single language to use to develop: desktop application, web sites, mobile applications, ecc. as C# or VB.NET developers has, isn't it?
>If VFP was in the .NET world, how good should be have the possibility to choose what kind of application we wold create?
>I don't know if to spend my time learning a .NET language or the next versions of VFP.....
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>Franco