>>It is not just the new cool thing on the market, it has so many features we don't have in VFP and would be impossible to built-in. Just a few example: Remoting, Strong typing, free threading, multi-threading, etc...
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>Impossible? really? Perhaps you could've said that MS decided not to implement those things in VFP.

I'm sure, unless they are planning to make VFP part of .Net. One of the best feature to .Net to my opinion is Remoting and is part of the Framework, the only way VFP could take advantage of it is if it was in .Net

And there is no way to my personal opinion VFP will ever be part of .Net, if you take the c# language (only about 80 key words or so) is very close from VFP and very easy to learn for a VFP developer. Learning the framework is another story.

>>No. They are pushing .NET because this is their preference. As a company it would be non-sence to push 2 products designed to do the same thing.
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>From that point of view every language does the same thing. But it would be harder to do those same things depending on the development tool used <vbg>

Languages pretty much all the same, which is help you writing application. You could write an application is Assembly or in VFP and get the same result. The time it takes to write the app may however vary slighly...


>>Every time i sell my application, i also sell SQL Server licences and my app is mostly written in VFP.
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>Even for those that don't really need SQL Server? MS must like you a lot.

Yes, but they never sent me a apreciation letter! Actually for small businesses we install MSDE which over time they may have to switch to Full sql server and we make sure they know about it....


>>This is the fear i was talking about.... VFP and .NET are only tools to help you build an application. Like a hammer would let you build a house, if you can't use a hammer, no matter what other tools you use, you house will crash.
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>The problem here is that new hammer they just released must preferably be handled by many persons to work effectively.

There is no need of a 10 pound hammer to nail a 2" nail, but what if you have to nail a 6" nail and only have a 1/2 pound hammer available ?