>>I got an unbelievably lucky break last week. I was looking for work and touched base with a recent client whose FoxPro DOS I had converted to VFP 9. Not only do they have some work for me, they want me to help convert their VFP apps to .NET. The guy I will report to said the other developer on the conversion will be using VB but I am free to use C#. Not only that, the first one he wants me to do is one I previously converted to VFP, so I don't have to go through that learning curve again. This is perfect for me. I have not gotten anywhere landing a .NET job without any work experience. In this job market when they say they want X years of experience they seem to really mean it.
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>I will be curious the hear a few details about this "convert their VFP apps to .NET"
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>What kind of ".Net" implementation / stack are you going with?
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>As far as:
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>What UI... WebForms, MVC, Silverlight, or client based using WinForms or WPF?
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>Any commercial framework planned? MereMortals, StrataFrame, DevExpress XAF, etc.
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>Any UI component tools planned like DevExpress, Telerik, Infragistics, or any other?
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>What kind of DAL your going with? ADO.NET, LinqToSql, EF, or some ORM package (which one)? Or, does the DAL already exist and you'll be working against that?
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We shall see. The project starts Sept. 15.