IMO the real choice is whether to:
(1) continue developing for the Windows desktop
or
(2) skip directly to web development.

(2) offers you several alternatives:
a- open source solutions / loosely typed languages such as ruby on rails or php/zend
b- proprietary solutions such as asp.net
c- keep your existing VFP apps and adapt them to the web with foxincloud

here are IMO the profile for each of these 3 alternatives:
a - you prefer freedom, community input, lots of learning / interacting on the forums
b - you seek a label you can sell to large companies, and you like 'learning' from tech conferences / shows
c - you prefer to learn gradually about the web (HTML/CSS/JS/HTTP) and deliver quickly real web-based applications to your clients, IOW enter the web world gradually.


>I know VFP, i am not an expert, but i know and i develope a simple Client Server application with SQL server i created visual classes too.
>3 years ago i started to study and develope some small applications .NET and SQL Server in my spare time
>What makes me feel bad is after more than 4 years of reading books, forums, and many many hours of programming in VFP , finally in 2006 Microsoft decided to not release more versions of VFP, i felt like my time was wasted
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>In these last weeks i am amazed that in www.codeplex.com or webpages of german users or other companies make it possible not only to program in VFP like always, but we can develope web with silverlight, mobile applications, and in codeplex i foudn a tool very useful that imporve vfp reports, EASILY!!!
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>Considreing that the coming year 2014, will be the last year for supporting VFP fro microsoft, adn considering the efforts wolwide by the users to improve VFPi want to ask you something:
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>It would be a good decision using my knowledge that i have in VFP, to START developing commercial applications for companies, or even develope a VFP framework for my use or use one, because those software can be competitive with oher languages for at least next 10 years?
>Or better giving more importance in programming with .NET?
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>Thank you
>
>
>Luis Martin