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Microsoft's position on Visual FoxPro and .NET
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10/06/2004 11:19:05
 
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Visual FoxPro
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How about..

.NET : Because I live to write code and love living on the bleeding edge. <s>

>Markus,
>
>Do you have plan to change your quote: Visual Foxpo: Because life to is too short to code in C++...
>
>Something like: .NET : Because life is too what??? to code in Visual Foxpro...
>
>>>> BTW, you said in VFPconversion.com "[...] but you can add this
>>>> functionality through ActiveX controls. This process works well,
>>>> in general, although this approach loses many capabilities such
>>>> as inheritance."
>>
>>>> You don't loose inheritance with ActiveX controls (I always subclass
>>>> every ActiveX control I use), or maybe I did not understand what
>>>> you mean ?
>>
>>You can not subclass ActiveX controls, because COM does not support inheritance. In VFP, you can subclass the container that hosts the control, but you can not subclass the control itself. For instance, you could not subclass the TreeView and change its render algorithm by overriding the appropriate methods.
>>
>>Markus
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