Tracy,

There are already a significant number of other vendors supplying products to run on the .NET platform. You don't need to use VB.NET or C# to do .NET. Ethnologica (?) seems to be one company who is willing to provide a VFP like language on the .NET platform. Now I'm personally not sure whether this is what I'm looking for (I'd like to look for something better, not equivalent to VFP), but it certainly provides a different approach to strict type implementations on the .NET platform.

As with the increasing maturity of .NET, things will get better, though I still have to see how well .NET stands in lets say 10 years from now.

Walter,