If you look at .NET make sure you check out the frameworks for it. There are 3 that I know of: Mere Mortals .NET, StrataFrame, and DevForce. All of them attempt to hide the complexities of ADO .NET which reduces the learning curve. StrataFrame is especially good for VFP programmers. The developers designed it for the VFP programmers working at their company with the goal of getting them productive ASAP. With basic c# (or VB .NET) and WinForms knowledge I was productive very quickly with StrataFrame.

I also have experience with DevForce. Its a bit more of a learning curve for VFP programmers, but it has the absolute best n-tier architecture I have ever seen. I am using it for a major project. I have not had to touch ADO .NET at all using DevForce.

Both of them allow you do stuff like Customer.LastName="Smith" then save it. DevForce goes a step further and lets you do stuff like Customer.SalesRep.Name. In fact you can do Parent.Child.GrandChild.GreatGrandChild.Property. Its really nice.

>>>Hi All :
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>>>I know that this issue as already been aborded in UT, but I wonder if any of you know what is to become o VFP ?
>>>Does it go opensource in a few years ?
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>>>What language should I bet on ?
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>>I think you need to learn several languages. Javascript, html, css, etc. and dot net, pearl, python, and php. I can't see VFP going away for the middle tier, data munging for a while though. Nothing else is as fast or elegant for that - yet.
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>thats exactly what I think...
>I even looked VB.NET , its similar to foxpro, I have notions of it, but nothing else seems as good as VFP :-(
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>never the less, thank you all for the replys