>Their main concerns for anything new would be "is it going to be around" and "how many developers" are there out there to continue to maintain it.
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That's easy on both counts.
.NET will be around as long as anything else on the current horizon and there are more people supporting .NET desktop apps than any other language I know.


I use .NET about 80% and VFP and PHP for the rest.

Just recently I had to do a QuickBooks integration. All of the example are in .NET.
I had it working in one day.



Give yourself plenty of time to learn it. It's a major paradigm shift from VFP