>>>>Anyone here familar with Delphi?
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>>Thanks Michael. "back in the day" I was really good at Pascal, so I'm thinking that this might be eaiser for me to pick up than C#. Next thing I need to try to find out is how many people are actully using Delphi. The foxpro community - although awsome & one of the best - seems to be dwindling down. I've managed to squeeze 10+ years out of VFP and now I gotta pick up something else. I have a chance to write a .NET app - but they want it done in 4 months! I figure if I have a head-start I can get it done, so maybe Delphi is the way to go for me.
>>If anyone has any pointers or advice I'm all ears!
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>Delphi .NET is an odd duck.
>There must be people using it, but I don't know any.
>All the Delphi guys I know are working in "classic" win32 apps - and Delphi really shines for those.
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>Our local Delphi group is down in attendance, but then again, the local (OC) FoxPro group is gone.
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>There are some local .NET groups that seem to be doing ok after a very slow start.
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>If your app must be in .NET, why not C#?
>If you can program in both Pascal and FoxPro, the C# language itself should not be that big a challenge.
>Your real challenge is the seemingly billions of built in classes in .NET - it is a bigger challenge than whatever language you choose.
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>The advantage of being able to google for oodles of answers is huge - the advantage of using a popular language.
>It is an advantage we did not have back in the day when we were learning Pascal and VFP.
>It is hard to over-state just how wonderful Google is when you are learning a new language.
>I hardly use the built-in help anymore, because Google is so much better.
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>Good Luck!
>Best,
>Michael

Well, I guess I might as well face the music and go with C#. I really don't want to end up in that 'odd duck' position. I was acually leaning towards C# anyway but thought I should at least investigate Delphi. I did go out to dice.com - 137 matches for Delphi, 7397 for C#, and 68 for FoxPro. I'd say that sort sums it up for me...hahaha