>>>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.
>
Thank you for your input. Some very good points. Yet, I am eager to read what Viv has to say.
"The creative process is nothing but a series of crises." Isaac Bashevis Singer
"My experience is that as soon as people are old enough to know better, they don't know anything at all." Oscar Wilde
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