Thanks all...I have posted the questions back to the company and hopefully they can still contact the previous developer. And thanks Matt, I will most likely have to take you up on your offer once I get into this.

Albert

>> ( I don't know even C++ so I am starting from scratch). Also, I really don't know much about SQL server as all my apps have used the VFP native tables (although at least the SQL query/insert/update etc language is not daunting).
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>>So any suggestions on either of the two? I know it is highly subjective but a few good reco's might get me started.
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>>Thanks,
>>Albert
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>Here is a free, online resource written by Kevin McNeish specifically titles ".Net for Visual FoxPro Developers". I used this back in 2008 to get started learning .Net.
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>http://foxcentral.net/microsoft/netforvfpdevelopers.htm
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>I'm willing to help you in any way I can. Email me directly at mattslay@jordanmachine.com if you want to do some screen sharing or have a chat. I'm sure I can save you tons of pain getting started.
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>Have you installed Visual Studio on your machine yet? You can get the free Community Edition and it will do every thing you need. https://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/downloads/download-visual-studio-vs.aspx
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>Then to hit the database, you want Sql Server Express, also free and that's all you need on your dev machine. The next thing I like to do is get a copy of the database that I can install on my local machine so that I can code and test against the actual database (well, a copy of it.)