>Are you looking for amunition to show the manager why it's a bad decision or to open his eyes to alternative methods or just looking to validate/invalidate your own feelings on this? How you answer will affect my reply.
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Thanks Craig. Yes, we've spoken before. I do wish that you could have spoken to our CIO. However, they have decided to go with C# as opposed to Java or VB.NET.

Like I replied to Tim Bryan below I'm the only guy who knows C# (beginner+) and we have 250 VFP applications to convert and I feel that I'm the one who needs to guide and sell the direction of the effort and I feel that I'm getting resistance due to ignorance and not knowing what is out there.

No, it's not about my feelings. I know that EF is the best direction to go. I've used ADO.NET and datasets and it was tedious and was a lot of code. We only have two databases and about 100 tables.

I guess I'm looking for information to show the manager that it is a bad decision. Or I suppose to open his eyes.

A lot of this has to do with how everyone freaked out when they saw LINQ because it was new and foreign to them.