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

Thanks for the "referral", Dave! =0)

~~Bonnie




>>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.