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.

When I began developing in .NET, I had a production app that I needed to get up and running in a hurry. It made good sense to go with a commercial application framework - it helped me to be productive very quickly and I also learned a lot by reviewing the code in the framework.