>Hello all,
>I've finally to move from VFP to VB.NET.
>I want to know if i have to concentrate on developing all my application as web based.
>My reason is, Web based Applications are gaining a lot of popularity and the benefits are obvious, but can and should all applications be better of as Web applications.
>IOTW When should my applications be Web based. What are the considerations, now and the future.
>TIA

Sammy,

I would encourage you to develop some web applications before WinForms applications. The reason is that things are definitely more complicated when designing for the web. It will take a little longer for you to develop an application with ASP.NET, but it forces you into a two- or three-tiered model and mindset. This will be invaluable down the road, because you will be in a position to design systems that can have either a WinForms or WebForms interface (or both!).

In VFP, everything is done on the client. .NET can do it the same way, but it really shines in multi-tiered systems. I'd guess that 85% of the .NET Framework is geared specifically towards multi-tiered architectures and efficiently passing data between the layers.