One of my absolute favorite things about VFP is that I can drop 4 DLL's and an exe onto a network share, and install on the clients by simply creating a shorcut to the exe. Total footprint on the client machine, 500 bytes or so.

No tedious installation and reboot, no admin priveledges required, no dll hell, you can even install remotely using the c$ share to put the shortcut on other client machines. Application and runtime updates consist of simply updating the exe and 4 dll's on the share.

Simple, elegant, and stable.


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