>It kinda feels silly being part of such a minority. Could so many be right about what >to use to develop in (VS), and here we are still holding on to VFP, trying to convince >ourselves that "we're a great community".

if you have a real software engineering background then it is not that big a deal to learn VS2005.
the books written by the idesign.net employees are masterpieces...pick up a couple
and start grinding away....

live with the fact that for about six months your income will fall...
and live with ego gutting experience that you're starting from scratch in many ways....

and then after a year or so of hardcore VS2005 most IT management won't know the difference.... as far as they're concerned you're "that database app builder guy with 5+ years experience"


>No wonder MS wanted to quit developing VFP (i.e. 100:1).

Basically, VS2005 with the .NET 2.0 support library is a great combination for building data centric LAN, and web applications. I do not think VS2001 with .NET 1.0 was very good.

>Just some recent thoughts I've been having.

I took the plunge about a year ago ... and it was tough in the beginning.. looking back now I can see it was a great decision on my part...

Bonnie Berent and Kevin Goff offer great practical help when you get stuck(there are probably several others).

All this said VFP isn't going to suddenly "stop doing" what it does well.