Hi Bob,
<i><font color="#663300">Don't forget, VFP 8.0 adds a new, reusable, DE class also, which you will probably want to use as the base class of your DE object. </font></i>
Absotively! How could I forget? I am glad that my classes aren't further along than they are. I know several folks besides myself who will be able to throw out whole wads of classes and code as a result of some of the VFP8 features.
<i><font color="#663300">So much cool stuff to do, so few people using FoxPro. It really is too bad.</font></i>
I know. But when I hear about things like Brian Jones getting the CFast contract, I am quite heartened. I believe the opportunities for Fox are as great as ever. Microsoft will never market it, but they will never have to, because it sells itself.
<i><font color="#663300">You can be so much more productive today in VFP than you can in .Net.</font></i>
I have watched folks struggle with the learning curve moving from Fox windows to VFP. I can't imagine that there will be enough folks competent in DotNet soon enough to avoid more disasters. I don't see how you can use DotNet without some serious design methodology. It seems to me that in the area of software development the architecture is somewhat behind the tools.
Pamela
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