Just stating a fact that in the real world, all the concerns voiced by the naysayers here are non-issues.

That's not the case- did you take Walter's advice and google "stored procedure bad"?

There are many names I recognize at the dotnet events I've attended from here and my Compuserve forum days as VFP people. They seem to be very happy doing dotnet.

That's the "Appeal to Authority" fallacy. If you are so sure, you should be able to say why yourself.

For people to say, "oh don't use dotnet, you won't like it. It doesn't do a,b,c like foxpro does", is incorrect. Many have switched, and are happy they did.

That's a combination of the "straw man" and the "ad hominam" fallacy. Nobody said that.

This isn't to say all applications can be written just as well in both. I know that someone from MS was here to state that someone approached MS for help in porting their app and even MS had difficulty doing it.

Unless your circumstances are similar (which is impossible to say from the generalized description) this does not help people make a decision. As professionals we assess our own situation, compare it to anecdote, listen to the justifications, and form an opinion. At which point we can justify our opinion, surely.

But that is an oddball case. You have Kevin and Bonnie right here who have successfully deployed dotnet apps.

I got my first one of those going in 2002. So what? It has nothing to do with the benefits of SP or VFP's excellence in data munging.

It's been said many, many times that VFP does things in much different ways then the mainstream languages. So if you're going to switch, you can't go in with the mindset of what's the similar command to this. You need to go in asking about how do you write code for this kind of process.

Of course that's true. But nobody is saying that VFP is better because it is their habit. Actually I'd say the reverse is true. ;-) Competent people have concluded that VFP is far better at data munging. Competent people are questioning why SP is "always best". Can you read Walter's points and mount a counter-argument or not?