>I've looked at C# and .NET over the years, and have tried various things and had a general idea of how it worked, etc.
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>I've had an occasion recently to learn more about it and I have to say I'm very impressed with how well integrated it is.
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>For my Visual FreePro, Jr. database engine, I've had to create an external DllImport and use some marshaled unmanaged pointers for obtaining information back from the remote VJr DLL. It's been very straight-forward to integrate and is working well.
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[DllImport("vjrdbf.dll")]
>public static extern UInt32 dbf_get_field_type_extended(Int32 handle, UInt32 fieldNumber, [MarshalAs(UnmanagedType.LPStr)] ref string dest, UInt32 destLength);
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>It's really been quite nice. If any of you have been putting off learning C#, I would suggest you give it a try. It's very robust, and if you have any C/C++ knowledge, it's very straight-forward.

Yeah you are right, it is something that one should learn (it has been one of my realities besides VFP and Sql Server for sometime).

However, if you are starting now, then I suggest you to check and lean into non-MS languages. Give languages like Go, Dart, Python, Rust, ... a try. Although VFP, C# are my daily realities to work with, I am trying to learn Go and Dart (and Flutter). They seem to be better to me in many aspects (and postgreSQL for the database).

PS: I am keeping an eye on V. Not yet released but should be something that you like.

I completely agree - check out other languages. There is a report that python will soon over take Java as the most used languages.
https://www.zdnet.com/article/programming-languages-python-predicted-to-overtake-c-and-java-in-next-4-years/
Johnf