OK a couple of things here, Fabio.

#1, please read my response to Sergey on this thread. Although I agree it would be nice if they did this, I do not agree that doing this would constitute "completing a job", for the reason I state there: that their reason to create a blob type did not necessarily have *anything* to do, strategically, with making blobs usable in interface elements in VFP. You already had a way to use these interfaces via filenames and, in implementing blob type, MS weren't necessarily concerned with giving you another way to use them for those interfaces.

Look at the introduction of varchars. Yes, they're useful, but we got them because it makes our behavior more consistent when we switch backends (IOW, because SQL Server has them) -- same with blobs, I suspect. It just rounded out the set.

I don't know this for a fact, this is no kind of "inside knowledge" -- I'm guessing from what I observe *has* changed in the product.

#2, Please note, in my response to Sergey, that I also offer a different mechanism (via CAST()) that might have been used rather than changing LoadPicture().

This should tell you that I've thought about it, in fact it might even suggest to you that that I've thought about *before* you said anything <g>.

You do not always get "only negative responses", and you know it. And you are not the only one with an independent mind, so please don't try to imagine that you are standing alone against a vast population of robots. Don't get all dramatic about this. <s>

#3. I am not defending MS's decision. But neither you nor I has any right to decide what is "too much work" or "not very much work", even if only technical issues were involved. That's without considering strategic direction and resources available.

IOW: Just being able to write a couple of lines of C code doesn't give you, or anybody, the whole picture on whether something is "too much work" or whether it should be implemented. As a result, being judgemental doesn't make you look smart (at all). If anything, it makes you look somewhat limited in scope and perspective.

I know you can do better than that, I've seen you do it <s>

So don't rant at me and make demands about "good complete jobs". Illustrate with appropriate use cases .

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