Check out http://www.icsharpcode.net/ There are other, but this gives you a flavor of the professionalism behind these efforts. These are not toys.

Hank

>Craig,
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>>>No. You still must purchase VFP to develop any apps. Not so with .NET. You *can* get the compilers and framework for free. There are some freeware and shareware developer tools and IDEs available.<<
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>Actually, anybody can create standalone tables and manipulate them without a FP development license.
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>But it is a trickshot, not really a useful business proposition.
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>We need to be realistic about your suggestion as well. Creating dotNET apps using a text editor and a command line interface?! That's a cool idea in 2004! And are you advocating that neophytes can get MSDE installed and immediately functioning as easily as a FP table? Mom-and-pop outfits will have no difficulty at all, right?
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>I see that somebody has produced something called "VistaDB" for dotNET- simple distribution, small runtime and license-free distribution being the main attributes. Sounds somehow familiar... ;-)