>Well, Pete, I guess you are a bit older than me, so I will listen to my Elders on this. Ha! I just turned 56 yesterday. It's just another year, but the odometer is still turning.
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>I could kick myself for letting these years slip by without having conquered C#.
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>I appreciate knowing how you proceeded, since you were a dedicated and dyed in the wool FoxPro programmer first. I will move forward with both SQL Server, of which I have some years of experience (but in my opinion still not as much as Id' like) and C#.
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>Thanks for your advice,
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>Cecil
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>>Hello Cecil, I, like you, have used Fox for years - until a couple of years ago - my company decided that they wanted all their main apps ported from Fox / Access to .NET/ SQL Server. I knew NOTHING about either. Six months later I had the first one go live - it was the simplest one maybe !, but it was excellent to cut my .NET teeth. Once you write your data handling classes ( plenty of examples on the site ) you will be up and comfortable in no time. C# is the language of choice for me , and SQL server is awesome once you get used to writing stored procedures ( I was a died in the wool procedural programmer in Fox ) and optimising your queries. Go for it Cecil - you'll love it. By the way - I'm 57 next birthday.
Cecil,
I'm a little late getting into this thread but for a very good reason. I was in Oracle PL/SQL class all of last week. I am 67 so to me you and Pete are youngsters. It gets scary the older you get but it can be done. The PL/SQL syntax was all new to me but the structure reminded me of ADA and little like SAS or SPSS-long ago languages that I once knew. When they started explaining how to refine your code by creating and calling procedures and functions and sub programs it was the same stuff I learned 40 years ago. I guess what I'm trying to say good programming practices will follow you no matter what the language of the day is.
Sammie
ps I used to live in Saint-Pryve-Saint-Mesmin which is just across the river from Orleans. My wife and I loved it there.
Sammie
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