Summary

I hope you're convinced of the approximate equivalence of Visual FoxPro and Visual Basic .NET for filtering and searching tables. I was initially put off by the strangeness of .NET's data access, but after you do a few queries, you'll know how to get where you want to go today.

In the next chapter we'll see how similar FoxPro and Visual Basic .NET are when it comes to designing and using reports. You've probably been hearing about Crystal Reports for years , and you've probably heard some horror stories. The latest version of Crystal is much, much improved. I believe you'll not only like it, but even be impressed by both its power and its ease of use.