>> To be true, it's not a .NET product, and most of VFP developers don't want it to be.
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>To add to this, the next version of Visual Studio code named Whidbey and other related efforts will have many more VFP like and data-centric features for VB, C#, and all related programming and application development. There is a big effort at Microsoft to add new features to Visual Studio programming that include the same great data-cenric features of VFP.
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Ken,
I have been wondering for many years why didn't traditional languages (C, C++, Fortran, VB, ...) have native data access-manipulation functions and commands. IMHO a big part of the applications being developed worldwide are for companies, and most of them have to handle data. So why C (and its succesors C++ C#) didn't have this capability built in? Or at least at some extent?
One of my first assigments I made in C++ 10 years ago was to rewrite a complete econometric country specific model from Fortran to C++. The model had to handle a lot of data, and at some point I thought it could be done in VFP better than in C++; we did it in C++ for speed and mathematical considerations, but it cost me endless nights. Should C++ have had data manipulation capabilities I would have more hair now.
So congratulations for what it seems to be as a great great idea.
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