>I agree with you that C# is easy enough to learn for a Foxer. I don't agree that NET allows you to work with larger databases. We began using SQL Server with Fox even before VFP was released in 1995.
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>IMHO the main Fox claim to fame was its local indexed "cursors" that span automatically to disk, meaning you can do anything you like locally without overwhelming local resources to bring the machine to its knees. It was fashionable to scoff at this concept for most of the last 7 years but people are coming back to it. Perhaps NET will get this ability soon- or perhaps some better way will be invented as mobile devices with no hard drive and unpredictable connectivity come to dominate the front end.

XML5 has it, local cursors, that is, and now that MS appears to be shifting its ever so restless gaze away from Silverlight and towards XML5 (will this NEVER end?!?!) we have the promise of getting back at least some of the productivity and ease of use that Fox has had since, oh, early 80's. You'll probably have to wait until 2022 to start using it, though, because that's when W3C estimates the final XML5 specs to be nailed down.