>Well put. Also, I think a sizeable number of vfp developers that try DotNet are under the assumption that they will be almost instantly as productive in Dotnet as they are in VFP. This for the most part is patently false. There is a learning curve to get past when learning Dotnet and in some cases it can be steep. Once someone has the samme level of competence in DotNet as they do VFP I think they can really appreciate what DotNet has to offer and use it. Until you reach that point vfp will always seem the "better" alternative.
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>In the end it is a matter of leaving your comfort zone and learning a new technology which isn't always the easiest road to travel.

Don't forget various business circumstances. I don't believe people care to much about 'comfourt zone' as much about the *weight* they carry along.

If you travel alone with only light baggage, then you can easily jump to newest cruise ship that is out there and just sail away, but if you carry with you 20 years worth of belongings, be that personal or company heritage and cargo is huge, then decision making about platform change is whole different story.
If you consider all this, then you will understand why people like Tore or Walter or JimN are not always in a mood to chit-chat about newest NET success story :)

Personally I would LOVE to play with NET, just as I am playing now with new VFP9 stuff, but can I really switch to NET?

If you want to constructively participate here, then why don't you come up with real life NET application success (or horror) story?
I am very mach interested in both. Personally I don't really care what can be done with 'reflection' or how do you pass variables or objects back and fourth or how cool this or that NET class comparing to rusty fox way...
What interests me is story like;

... We had this set of apps to convert, or application request was such & such, we used this backend, it took us that much time with that much people, and costed us roughly that much money. Cleint/company implementation was smooth or rough, lasted that long... Cost of ownership (maintenance) is that much... etc.

If you come with this kind of story with preferably real facts, I believe nobody will ever give you any grief here. Quiet opposite.

Cheers :)
Sergio