I will try to overcome the past feelings about VB and look at VB.NET as a new product, which it basically is. I have a text book written by Anita Millspaugh which I was going to use to get started with VB.NET 2005 but got too busy at work and at home (Contracting at home). If I can get some of our VFP development projects at work out of the way, I will get back to the VB.NET; a company (BaseTen) has been contracted to convert many of our programs for production and timekeeping to VB.NET.