I do fancy the "it depends" kind of statements; sound to me like "water is wet" and "fire is hot".

if OP expects advices he can make a decision upon, some real-life examples would probably be more beneficial ...

Anyhow, I notice that you've been cruising with .Net for 9 years, my post mentioned 2 years -- I may be even too optimistic!



>>If you're a VFP expert, it'll take you years before you can deliver the same quality on another platform.

>That depends on the platform, and when and how you move to it.
>
>I started moving to .NET around 2007 and wasn't at the some level of competence I had in VFP till around 2011.
>There were two forces in play:
>-.NET was a moving target- several "next great things" such as LINQ2SQL, et al came and went
>-there weren't many definitive best practices- I'd go to .NET conferences that turned into arguments between experts on how best to do things, so you were pretty much on your own and I had several false starts.
>
>The .NET target has been fixed now and there's pretty general agreement on best practices, so the learning curve should be based primarily on learning the .NET syntax- no easy task, for sure- but the whole process is a lot more straightforward now than it was 10 years ago.