>> That would explain the abysmal number of Foxpro jobs around the country. Most of them are to convert to .NET or maintain legacy systems. And for some reason, many of them are in the Northeast, Florida or Texas. Banking maybe? Glad I'm going towards VB, just doing it about 10 years too late.
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>It seems to be the same case here in the UK. There has been a lack of Fox jobs in general for a few years now (certainly in the north of England). The current job market looks to be weighted in favour of C# in the .net stakes. There has also been a recent spate of SQL DBA/Development positions arising as companies plan to upgrade their systems from 2000 to 2005.
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>If I want to stick with a career based purely on Fox skills I will most likely have to move closer to London.
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>There seems to be little call for Fox skills in a full application development sense also. Most of the positions I have seen arise have been more centered around data manipulation and even these require candidates to possess knowledge of other database technologies.
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>I've recently changed jobs but the last time I was looking for new employment was over 6 years ago and every recruitment consultant I spoke to advised that I switch to a different skill set as my primary.
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>More recently I had only one interview where my VFP skills were brought up and that was only because I was being interviewed by a VFP die-hard (it was like being interviewed by myself) for a SQL Developer position. I was told I could use VFP to perform the aspects of the role specific to me but that all development was performed in .Net by a different team.
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>Every other interview I was invited to attend was down to the presence of SQL Server skills and/or Business/Systems Analysis skills; skills I would never have developed had I not started out programming with Fox.
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>I think that is where Fox users will find their greatest advantage when migrating to .Net (if they choose to do so). Our experience with OO development, data design and data handling learned through Fox is something that a lot of our .Net peers may have missed out on.


The job situation is about the same here. When you do a search on "FoxPro" on the major job boards like dice.com usually most of the hits are where it is listed as "helpful" or some such, or at the end of a long list of desired skills.