>Dean,
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>I think VFP is here for a darned good while yet!
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>I was referring to its prospects within .NET. MS doesn't want to do it. Period!
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>That's their prerogative... we just don't need all the bull attendant with the decision!
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>[Imagine dBASE back in DOS time... DOS has no database so you would lose everything about DOS if you made a database application. That didn't hold water then (I'm sure no one even tried) so why does '.NET does data differently so you'd lose everything about VFP if you put it in .NET'? The ONLY reason is that MS doesn't care to program a .NET version of VFP with local data access.

Don't they know we can use MySQL for very little money? :)
So it doesn't matter about accessing local database. We can get a very powerful database back end for a very nominal fee. In fact the longer I use MySQL, I wonder why ever use MS SQLServer 200X.

MySQL5.0 is gold. Comes with it's own managing tool, very much like MS Enterprise Manager.