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>This is where I become confused. Other than the data engine, what are the real differences? What are the things that cannot be done with .NET and are those markets that your talking about the small businesses? It would be nice to see a feature comparison of the two languages and the primary markets for both. Probably that information is too undefined to put into a chart though.
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Renoir,

The only thing that pops into my mind is the size of the .NET runtime, at almost 24Mb, makes it a pain for distribution (particularly downloading) of what normally might be a small application. VFP suffers the same problem, but with much smaller runtime DLLs.

Things that can be done in VFP but not .NET? I'd be shocked if there's anything. :)