Hello Bill

Thanks for the info
I think you waited long enough to avoid the pain of the first few versions, If you are looking for VB.net/VFP comparisons, I believe Les Pinter has a book, or at least some articles exactly that.

There are quite a few job opportunities in the Philly area (Hamilton is pretty close I think) in VFP. At our users group, Tamar (and others) have passed on probably 2 dozen job postings in the last year or two, Just FYI.

Bob

>>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
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>John and Bob
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>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.
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>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.
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>Then I'll take on the additional .NET capabilities as I need them.
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>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.
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>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.
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>Is there any book that jusxtaposes VB.NET with VFP?
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>That would be a big help.