My experience has been like Marcia's in that I've found a framework - that is to say a set of classes that raise .NET to a higher level - especially in the area of data handling - can flatten the learning curve considerably. UI stuff in .NET is easy ,compared to Fox as far as I am concerned because it soooo much richer and you aren't fighting the OS and praying third party controls just might maybe somehow work with VFP. The frameworks take some of the grunt work out of hooking things up and give you a leg up on things like localization, security, encryption, deployment, contention etc.

Data handling is where you can quickly miss a data-centric language if you don't have a way to quickly be productive in .NET. That said, once you wrap your head around it - and with some of the additional functionality from a framework like Strataframe - you'll find it is richer than VFP there as well. And if you have WAN stuff to do be sure you look at their Enterprise Server - no vpn, secure, very fast. What a lot of people really want when they get tempted by a "web app".

The Strataframe forum at the link Marcia gave you is open to guests and there is a nice community of folks - many former (and existing) Foxers. The guys who wrote SF come from a successful Fox background so it is easy to get questions answered.

Worth checking out.

>I have been working with FoxPro for years (basically I'm an old dog that needs to learn some new tricks). For those of you who have made the leap to .NET development what wisdom can you share with me? I'm being asked to start creating some applications with MS SQL back end and C# front end. Some applications will be windows applications and some will need to be browser based.
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>What's the best book, video, training, strategy, framework, magic trick, etc.???
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>Thanks so much for sharing your knowledge!