Thanks Mike,

At this point my motivation and excitement about learning .NET is quite high, thank God. I was like an OLD VFP GUY banging his head against the wall, refusing to believe that the world was changing. I didn't want to have to learn .NET. I was you might say, "Comfortable". Perhaps the word should rather be "complacent"?

I had a very nice job in manufacturing and thought I was going to be okay, but when fewer new homes were being built, and the resulting reduction in sales and work removed dollars from my company's profits; they got rid of about 16 of us salaried and over a hundred hourly in just a few months.

I had a feeling that things weren't so good for my company; I asked the HR Director how our company could keep all of us if we weren't doing very well in the sales department. She said, "I don't know." I was the only VFP person in the company and had plenty of work to do. But, the bottom line for any company is that they cannot stay in business if there is no profit.

Okay, enough of that.

The bottom line is that I feel I have a new lease on life. Depression I had for probably 9 months or more has fled with the desire to learn. Learning has always been fun for me. Why I fought going into .NET I can't really understand. Was it the curly brackets in C#? Was it the word "Visual Basic" which used to make me want to puke upon hearing it? I am referring to the previous VB 6.0 and earlier. I liked FoxPro. I thought, "Why can't I stay with FoxPro?" When I did that market analysis and saw what was going on and that FoxPro opportunities were extremely reduced and nearly extinct, I knew that I had to do something else. I could no longer ignore the changes which had occurred in software technology. FoxPro is a great tool, but it's day is nearing its end, sadly. :)

I came out of my darkness and decided to smile, and get to work learning some new stuff, and it happens to be .NET.

Cecil

>Try to think positively. Having been through a lot of language transitions, this is one I don't mind. C# has struck me from the start as a clean language. The parts I don't like are the ones that have been added on in later versions to make it more like earlier languages.

>>I think that C#'s behavior is that if you have the same menu listed twice, it disappears. Well, it wasn't the same "name", but had the same "Text" value. I did get the menu to reappear once I got rid of the second menu item of the same "Text" value. C# is like stepping through a mine field, holding your hands over your ears, hoping you don't fall into a hole or hit a land mine. Okay, it's not that bad, but because there is so much to C#, you have to go through everything at least once to figure out how it all works.