>>And just to stir things up a bit more,

This thread is a good example of what someone trying to learn .NET faces.
There are many more ways to accomplish even the most basic tasks in .NET than there were in VFP,
and there are ardent evangelizers for all of them on the UT and all over the web.

When I go to conferences, code camps etc, invariably I hear people arguing over which latest and greatest
gizmo is best down to the nth nanosecond.

These dialogues, however well informed, confuse the life out of someone
struggling with things like when to use curly braces with an if statement.

Fortunately, I ran into a C# developer at a conference who had gone thru the same maze
and he advised me to narrow my focus and forget the alternatives till I had one method down pat.

I did that by getting a good book and keeping my head in the sand till I had the basics down
and that has been working for me.