OK, I am considering throwing in the towel. I have decided to give dotnet a try. I have read several books about C# and VB#, and I believe that I will be able to write some code relatively fast. But I don't want to start in the wrong end, I want to do it right from the start, so I ask for some advice.

First of all, I have Visual Studio 2012 Professional installed and running on my computer. I also have MS SQL server 2012 installed and running. And I will focus on C#.

One of my first questions is, should I use Windows Forms or WPF Forms?

In VFP I have sub-classed all the base classes, some of them more than one level. Should I do the same in .net also? If so, how?

Can anyone recommend a good book (or two) with essential but not too much reading?

Are there other important decisions I will have to make early in my learning phase?

And last, please don't mock me! I will always remain a VFP lover, and I know that I haven't always written nice things about dotnet. From now on I will avoid writing negative about dotnet until I know better what I am talking about.