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>>> Right now, I plan to become familiar with .NET but wait for better RAD
>>> capabilities directly from .NET or third party tools, while getting
>>> immediate results with VFP.
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>Interesting points. What parts of the .NET RAD tools do you find lacking compared to VFP's? There are some obvious ones of course. The ease of creating a local VFP database and directly integrate it into a prototype is hard to beat. But besides that, I would be interested in your opinion...
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I began playing with .NET since some months ago. And it seems to me that .Net is not quite there for me compared to VFP.
1. It's difficult to subclass existing visual classes. You can do it but not visually. And it seems that you have to put them in a dll to use it on a form.
2. Of course, you loose the command window so useful to test some function interactively, etc.
3. You loose some time waiting for compilation before testing your code, forms, etc. But the advantage of .NET is that much more errors are catched at compile-time.
4. Winforms Forms seems to be somewhat rough on the edges. The toolbar is not very advanced for example. The Grid cannot contains anything but textbox and checkbox.
5. Typed datasets generate tons of code that seem difficult to change if the underlying structure of the table is changing.
6. Databinding Winforms looks like a lot more complex.
7. The 2 way form designer makes me feel uneasy, it's generating a lot of code.
8. It always seem to take much more code to do the same things in .NET
Like I said somewhere else, it looks like that .NET 2.0 will adress some of these issues. The new widgets for example seem very promising.
But, I'm trying to learn more about .NET and maybe one day I'll feel as comfortable with it than with VFP. I hope a web site like VFPconversion.com will help me in this processus. Thanks for putting this material on-line.
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