I don't feel any "ENTITLEMENT that VFP should be used". My life is not directly affected by the Whidbey team's decision. However, my professional work is indirectly affected when I propose a project use an ISAM store and pick VFP; it takes business-unit decision makers ignorant of VFP .0003 seconds to say something like "MS doesn't use that, we better stay with Access". My professional work is also indirectly affected when I have to reeducate developers that should know better; if a cutting-edge group at Microsoft can't choose the appropriate database tool, it's hard to expect other people "to get it".

I am not saying that Access is a piece of junk. I am saying that the Jet database, as implemented in the MDB file format, is inferior to the VFP data engine implemented in the DBC/etc file formats. I would have expected the Whidbey team to know better, especially since the VFP8 OLEDB driver is a free/easy download.



>Why should noise be made? Why do you feel there is an ENTITLEMENT that VFP be used? How is your life affected one way or another because the .NET team decided to use jet as opposed to VFP? More importantly, do you think ANYBODY on the VFP team cares about the fact that the .NET team used Access instead of VFP?
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>FWIW, Access is not the piece of junk a lot of VFP developers like to make it out to be. For one thing, it has better integration with SQL Server than VFP ever has or will ever have.....
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>>I was just looking through the latest issue of Visual Studio Magazine, and there is an article on Whidbey ASP.NET features. One of the new features is automated membership/security management in VS.NET; a tool automatically appears to create a database called ASPNetDB.mdb is made to hold credential and personalization info, with the expectation that the database would be upsized to MsSql when needs grow.
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>>The fact that a Jet database was used instead of a VFP one makes me a little sick. I find it hard to believe that in 2004, the "new technology" Whidbey team would use an MDB when the DBC has so many advantages as an ISAM store.
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>>I hope someone at the VFP group can make some nose about this.