I agree with some of the things you both like and dislike.

I get that "hemmed in" feeling too from .NET's IDE, but, I love the modern GUI that it provides. It does make VFP's look dated. Unfortunately, its the end product that our customers see (not the development IDE) and both products create that "ugly duckling" look!

I suppose now there is a solution to both. In VFP we could start using Alex Grigorjev's cool library and in VS.NET we could wait for VS2005.NET or buy third party tools (which is what we currently do).

Mike


>Ramil,
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>I for one really dislike the "hemmed in" feeling that the .Net UI has. I wish the .Net interface was more like VFP's myself.
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>>The entire look and feel. I am trying to learn .Net and with .Net 2005 beta1, I can do all my development tasks from the .Net IDE (Sql Server, C#, etc). I get used to, should I say - pampered, all the niceties the IDE have.
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>>Developing in VFP has a different look and feel, like an "ugly duckling"? Don't get me wrong, I earn my sow developing VFP applications.