>>I don't mean to be rude. But if I read this correctly it's taken 10 man years (2 yrs x 5 developers) to complete a conversion. If this is true - that is terrible. How long did it take you to develop the app with VFP in the first place?
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>>Since I assume you had an excellent grasp of the requirements - you had already done it once. The the time was spent on learning C# and writing code. I'll assume it took one year just to learn the .Net. That still leaves 5 man years to write the code.
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>>I'm bragging but using python I recently converted a large project in less than a year. That was two people learning python, Dabo and wxPython. Teaching our selfs python was very easy because it following the VFP thinking (other than syntax). The hard part was learning wxPython. BTW our project is now over 400 tables using Postgres.
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>>Something is wrong with your statement. Or I'm missing something?
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>Looking at all of the types of modules he converted, it doesn't seem unreasonable at all. I'm assuming it took roughly the same amount of time or longer to write it in VFP originally. I'm also assuming they did the conversion perhaps with more layering?

You are correct TC. The VFP version is more of a 2-tier app because the CursorAdapter arrived too late for us. In .NET we have a heavy use of SPs and Views using MM as the ORM. The solution now is composed of 24 projects including 8 projects for the business object layers.