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>If your company is based pure on the advantage of a proprietary algorithm chances are they won't be around long as others catch up.

I guess then that the solution would be to provide a service but to never make the software available.


>>We're not the ones in charge. Makers of the development tools are in charge. Then we have to work with what they give us.
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>Obviously you lack in imagination, Denis... You say it with such conviction too - "it's their responsibility to give us what I need"!
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>Look around you at what people ARE doing with the tools and see how many things that "can't be done" out of the box, are being done. It happens everyday.

You say I lack in imagination. To me it does'nt really seem like that. I attend regularly to user group meetings. Data processing on .Net does'nt seem to be a piece of cake. And many discussions here don't seem to prove otherwise.

Why the heck is that? VFP has been doing it effectively for years. Even is VFP is the black sheep at MS did'nt anyone notice that VFP can play nicely with SQL Server.

So again why does it seem to be so complicated to do it with .Net.

To me it looks like MS did'nt realize that developers were building data-centric apps all those years <g>

That's what I mean by having to work with the tools provided. I don't expect MS to have a hot-line so I can specify the spec of the apps my customers ask for and then MS will give 'em to me. <g>

Did'nt you at least expect a step forward and not backward in that department?

I know that there are high hopes for VS .Net 2005 in the data-centric department. Let's hope they do it right this time.

In the meantime I'm still using the FOX. I just hope that I'll be able to use it until they finish .Net <bg> an not be forced to jump ship and use (still beta even if sold as a finished product) .Net