>Tracy,
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>I can see your logic Kevin, but doesn't that also imply that developers are wasting their time using Delphi 8 and the other languages that utilize the .net framework?
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>Interesting question. I'm not an expert on Delphi, but my initial response is 'no', it does not imply that.
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>It seems possibly to be apples vs oranges, because Delphi 8 appears to BE a .NET product (hence, the name "Delphi 8 for the Microsoft .NET Framework"), with full support for the framework. I think there's a big difference between that and what has been discussed here for VFP.
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Tracy (by way of Kevin) :),

Does Delphi still maintain its own ways to deal with data, cursors, or whatever Delphi calls it, independent of the System.Data namespace?