Jim,

>Surely you will not be answering with ASP.NET plus C#/VB.NET plus SQL Server since it remains basically UNPROVEN technology with only glowing POSSIBILITIES as its credentials.

I cannot agree with your statement above. ASP.NET plus C#/VB.NET plus SQL Server is not unproven by a long shot and has many more credentials than possibilities -- the many actual sites running on that combination are not just unproven possibilities!

For instance, during the time I worked for CoDe Magazine, we moved the CoDe website (http://www.code-magazine.com) through several iterations, starting with EPS's early product Visual Web Builder, then to Web Connection running VFP code against VFP tables, then WC/VFP against SQL Server, then finally to ASP.NET with VB and C# against SQL Server. Check it out -- a very sophisticated site with dynamic rendering of images for the articles from SQL Server using .NET streams, articles formatted via XSLT from XML content stored in SQL Server, a new user identity and security system, and much more. This is not unproven possibilities -- you are off-base on that comment, perhaps because you have not built an ASP.NET app yet?

However, I agree with you that the best web solution for a VFP shop with an existing VFP (or even FoxPro 2.x) app is not automatically ASP.NET. Each of the VFP-based web solutions has its own set of trade-offs that must be considered, including limited hosting choices and scalability issues. But in many cases a VFP-based web solution is the smart choice.