>Thanks for the input Mike, Can you give me an estimate of manhours put into learning .Net?
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>>figure 2-4 months to become proficient with c#/ado.net. Add 6-12 months to become proficiently familiar with the .net framework

John and Bob

I have no VB background and I've been learning VB.Net out of a book for the past couple of months, and John's numbers make sense, adjusted for senility, earning some money, golf, etc.

After about 3-400 hrs of concentrated work, I think I'll be able to do in VB.NET roughly what I can do in VFP9, which is my immediate objective.

Then I'll take on the additional .NET capabilities as I need them.

So far, I'm finding the language and the platform to be quite accessible and the intellisense for VB is wonderful, but there's just a lot to learn.

I'm on my 3rd book of a fairly sorry lot, and I find myself going to the MSDN documentaion more and more for a more focused and fruitful walkthrough of a problem.

Is there any book that jusxtaposes VB.NET with VFP?

That would be a big help.