Bill, >Fitting the best of VFP into another product might be a great idea in and of itself, and I'm surprised MS didn't do it with .NET...
Actually, that's what MS is doing now with the LINQ (language-integrated query) technology in the Visual Studio Orcas release. Calvin and Aleksey have been very involved in the effort to give .NET some data-handling capabilities that are much more Fox-cursor-like and SQL-in-the-language-like. It ain't VFP, but it's a big improvement over the limitations of .NET datatables. You can see other VFP-inspired improvements in .NET, including drag and drop fields and populate controls on a page, meta-data-driven tools, code expansion a-la VFP Intellisense, the ObjectDataSource (two-way data binding with hooks -- like VFP CursorAdapter) and many more. YAG and Ken were able to push a good many VFP-ish ideas via their work in the .NET Data group. David Stevenson -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.408 / Virus Database: 268.13.11/496 - Release Date: 10/24/2006 _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
