Hi John,
You forget that with all saleman, Nothing is any good until it is in the barrow they are pushing.
Your comment from while ago summed it up, "When .NET is a mature product you will go to it".

>>>When .NET finally delivers "...automatic memory/disk spanning..." cursor-type data access they'll (have to) tell us that such stuff is for the hobbyist newbie anyway.
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>Or maybe they'll hail it as another fabulous dotNET innovation that will never make it into clunky old VFP ;-)