>Gary
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>If you are using Strataframe, you are locked in VB .Net. User interfaces are easier to build in VB .Net than C#, but it lacks some of the features of C#. Watch out, because rumor has it that MS's long range plan is to make VB the next legacy platform.
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>Yes, 3 months is not enough to become an efficient coder. It is enough to see what can be done, and where you can go with C#. It is enough time to realize that we cannot pour the salary base into a C# application that would be required. I can produce a VFP product sooner, with less cost, and with the same functionality as a C# application. I can use the same backend as does C#. By analogy, you will have to sell your "hammer" to your customer for $25 bucks, I can deliver my hammer for $15. They both will drive the same nail with equal grace.
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Indeed. And it's not the expert consulting crowd who decides what's "best" for the market, it's (now) the USERS.
And today, more than ever before, cost is THE issue. The consultants can trot out all manner of future costs (and defrayment of same using their current pet platform) but it is today's cost that matters. Users will worry about tomorrow's costs if tomorrow arrives.

cheers (and keep your fire-suit handy)


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>-Regards
>Don Lowrey