>Fox has given us most of those routines out of the box. I remmeber having to write all sorts of sort objects in C and pascal, definately more time consuming and harder to understand than SET ORDER TO.
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>There's a lot more to fox than SETing an ORDER. Of course - if we limit our production to a form with a grid - then "set order" and "sort" would be the grandest part of our repatoire!
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>If that is your situation I can see why:
>1) You non-chalantly claim foxpro is easy.
>2) Why Quay had to hire outside consultants to convert to NET.

LOL (sorry Jos). You are the king of jumping to conclusions. Quay didn't hire anyone to convert anything to .Net. I never said I was converting anything to .Net.

SET ORDER TO was just one example of a command in VFP that would take much more effort in another language. When you are used to a higher level language like VFP, it is much harder to make the jump to a lower level language like c or c#.

A form with a grid, by the way, is probably 85% of any VFP UI, including your RIO framework, and if I remember that code, you had 2 grids on 2 forms. High level programming for sure.