>>>>I know I am being presumptuous by speaking for him. My thinking was this.
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>>>>1. Rick is a tool maker, not a tool user.
>>>>2. He seems to like things done cleanly, not kludges.
>>>>3. He moved on from FoxPro years ago. He was among the first among us to embrace .NET.
>>>
>>>So you consider Etechnologia's stuff to be a 'kludge?'
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>>That was not the best word I could have chosen. It may in fact be technically elegant. But the last thing anyone but diehards need is a way to keep FoxPro alive. It's way past time to move on.
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>Move to what exactly ? What is the sound alternative today ? Last time I checked there was nothing out there that beats fox.
>(And No, NET could be the complement, but it is not an alternative)
>
>Did I miss something ?

The reason I want to shift to .NET is there are tons of jobs and a rapidly dwindling number of VFP jobs.

The trick is getting that first .NET job without experience. The best bet is probably finding a VFP job and then getting on a .NET project with the same company, for instance when they rewrite it.