Hello Jos,

I realize that was not the point, just an additional observation.

I agree the interaction was interesting, and the security issue is one that VFP programmers have been dealing with for years.

Bob

>Hi Bob. OK, that wasnt why I thought it was so interesting :) I thought that here was a real life drama between two obviously top programmers.
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>But iro your point - I dont know why that would be. I think .Net writes and exposes a lot of "behind the scenes code" that you normally do not see in VFP perhaps? Possibly also the decompiled exe exposes internal stuff that is also in any VFP exe but not visible to us normally?
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>>Hello Jos,
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>>Interesting indeed, I didn't delve into the code, but it sees like several pages of code for a "hello world" app??
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>>This is the same type of thing I noticed at the conferences, the speaker would give a .NET equivalent of a VFP snippet and it would be several times more volumous, IE: MS Bloatware lives.
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>>Bob
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>>>>Something interesting regarding this
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>>>>http://thinstall.com/discuss/viewtopic.php?t=128&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0&sid=8dff53c5a58fa79affd66603d780eb47
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>>>>>
>>>>>.NET can also be decompiled.
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>>>Hi Dorin. Very interesting. Anyone reading this thread should definitely take the time to read this link. Thanks Dorin.