>OK, I am considering throwing in the towel. I have decided to give dotnet a try.
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>One thing that will really help you to get up and running quickly is to use a commercial application framework to build your first apps. I started out using Strataframe, which was good, but, to the best of my knowledge, only handles WinForms apps well and has some limited functionality for webforms.
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>A pricier way to go would be to look into DevExpress. Not only do they have and application framework to support all flavors of .NET apps, they have an awesome suite of controls and a reporting engine that puts VFP's report writer to shame.

Hi Marcia,

I am a candidate for a job as .net programmer in a local software company. They don't require any .net skills as such, but they require a wide experience with OOP, plus some additional knowledge, it's some of these additional skills, together with my experience with VFP and some other technologies which makes me very well suited for the job. They had an interview with me yesterday, and I got a very good feeling. Unfortunately I forgot to ask, and they forgot to tell me, about which platform(s) and tools they use. However, I don't want to start from scratch with c#, so I want to "play" a bit with it to get a basic knowledge. I already feel relatively comfortable with c# as a language, with platforms, framework and all that I think it's best to play safe for now.