What kind of continuation do you think was available for the VB programmers?

>>VB is done:
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>>http://support.microsoft.com/lifecycle/?p1=2971
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>>And as Rick said there are far more VB programmers then VFP. And I think it's a little steeper for them to go to dotnet then VFP programmers.
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>I meant they had some sort of continuation from VB6 to VB.Net and yes with many more programmers
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>VFP is the only one I know(15 years now), I know it's sad thing. I know I will have to learned something else eventually but what? VB.Net, C# ...
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>>I also know several dotnet guys who do software for mom and pops successfully using dotnet. Thou many here seem to think that's impossible.
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>Myself, I never doubted it was impossible.
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>Where I last worked, we were 6 programmers working full time on a project(non-profit) with 150 small municipalities(300-3000+ residents,1-10 stations). It took us about 3.5 years, and that was a little before the .NET era started, to convert and that, while fixing the FoxPro DOS. It was major investment for them.
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>Now tell them they have to redo it for the next OS post-Vista(It should not take 5 years this time ;) ).
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>That's why I offered solutions to Microsoft. Just past the torch to those that want it. They will still sell Windows X/Office versions.
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>Those same municipalities may decide to go with Linux next time. That's a lost of secondary revenues that Microsoft doesn't seemed to calculate.