I have been a Fox developer since around 1985 (Foxbase 1.0). I still do VFP development, but most of my new stuff is C# web or Windows Forms apps. If you are comfortable with object oriented development in VFP, you should find C# easy to learn. As an object-oriented person, I find VB.Net syntax hard to understand compared to C# . I consider C# to be my favorite language of all times.

Don't fear the lack of a command window in .Net (not in C# or VB.Net current releases). Simple projects compile and run so quickly (even faster thsn VFP!) that the compile/run sequence is a good alternative to interactive code in a command window.

Another thing any VFP developer should love is the C# compiler, which will flag almost all coding errors. This alone will save you enough debugging time to make up for the lack of a command window. The only time you might encounter a runtime error is when dealing with external data, such as a file or database column that does not exist. But all these potential issues can be covered in C# by careful try/catch handling.


>Is C# the best alternative to a VFP programmer ?
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>I heard that C# does not have a command window, is it true ?