>>1. Did you choose a web .NET application to replace the VFP app? or WinForms?
>>2. Does the .NET/SQL Server application have the same look and feel as VFP application? Or you had to change a lot in the UI of the application?
>>Thank you in advance for sharing.
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>At the exception of some very rare situations, all actual migrations of desktop applications are geared towards the Web/mobile. If you are in the process of doing so, I would benefit of that opportunity to move away from a desktop environment. Soon or later, you will have to respond to Web/mobile interface. That has been actually the case for most of the companies for years now. You might as well be ready when time comes.
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>As far as the look and feel, it is just a question on how you do it, independant of any development environment or backend you would use. If you take a look at this site, for example, you see that it as a very close look to a Windows style application. It is in fact a full blown application over the Web, since the very early '90s actually. It has just evolve over the years to adjust accordingly.
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>When you move to the Web, you will have to rethink on how it's done. Luckily, if you want to save time and benefit from advanced tools, you have some choices. Thierry has done good with FoxInCloud, so has Rick with West Wind, so has many others with other products. There are a lot of frameworks at various levels to help and ease the process in that direction.
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>If you wish, on the long run, for the user, it can be totally transparent. So, yes, you can end up with the same look and feel, or same interface at the end. While doing so, however, you may also benefit of the opportunity to adapt a few things, if applicable, from your application so it would fit better on today's need. The backend would probably be the easiest part to convert, should you want to move to SQL Server.

Thank you for your input, Michel. I agree that Web application is a better choice, for long-term. But I would still be curious as to what Bill did.

As far as FoxInCloud or West Wind, as much as these are excellent technologies, I will stay away from them. If I were to convert my VFP application, I would choose a language that a younger generation of developers would be willing to support. Both FIC and West Wind are still, under the hood, VFP applications. I am thinking more of the "exit" from this business strategy. Finding someone to support a VFP application is harder and harder in this country.

Last point. I love what you did with UT/Chatter4u. Truly remarkable. Of course, you started it as a web application way before most of us, VFP developers, were even playing with HTML. So you are ahead of the game. And, of course, you are a very hard working and smart guy. I prefer to study French but you already know it :)