>>Well said, Charles.
>>I'm supporting clients on both platforms now and after a couple of years of really struggling with C# I'm finding it increasingly difficult when I have to go back to VFP.
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>>One big deal for me is C#''s intellisense and real time compilation - showing errors and warnings as I type.. With VFP I always had a scratchpad handy to note variable or function names, etc so that I'd remember them when I used them later - no more scratchpads - no more "variable x not found."
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>>Another big deal is the plethora of tools (mostly free) that have been developed for the C# platform by 3rd party developers. I'm using them constantly.
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>>I've also come to appreciate the value of strong typing, which was a big pain when I started. I'm finding that my C# apps are more stable over time than my VFP apps, and that I get almost no support calls. I attribute most of that to strong typing which imposes more rigorous demands on me during the development process.
>>I spend more time coding, but a lot less time debugging.
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>>From VFP, I miss being able to inherit or copy the methods of a form or a control. That has been a real pain.
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>>It was also nice to be able to put together a simple app that popped out some totals or the like in a few minutes - we call them "handy-dandy's." I can't do anything in fewer than 3 or 4 hours in C# by time I set up the references, connections, blah, blah, etc.
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>>I also miss that wonderful Report Writer. CR is OK, but for me it's nowhere near as easy to use as VFP's.
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>What C# tools are you using regularly? I am always interested in those.

As for freebies available through the on-line Gallery :

VX10x has three that are must-haves :

Code Map v2
Comments Extender
Method Block Highlighter

And two from MS
PowerCommands for VS 2010
Productivity Power Tools

And if you work with datasets, the visualizer from Miha Makic at Righthand is amazing :

http://blog.rthand.com/post/2010/05/21/Righthand-DataSet-Visualizer-now-supports-Visual-Studio-2010.aspx