Michelle,

I am sorry about your predicament and I am sure you have a tough decision to make. But since you have to go through the efforts of learning something new why not take a look at Java, JSP and Perl. Why reward MS further by going to VB or any other MS product. Why offer them your brains to abuse and get into something you don't like. From a competitive and financial standpoint you will gain a lot more by NOT using VB. Salaries for Perl and Java are at least 50% higher.

I program in VB and I hate it. VB is a downgrade of all good things and an insult to a professional programmer's intelligence. I can program 99% of all apps in VFP but my clients want VB for no other reason than that MS has been marketing it. I have applications created with VFP but my clients do not want them even though they are perfectly sound.

For my part I am starting to look at Linux and have installed it already. I am retraining to develop apps using Perl, MySQL and Java/JSP. I will not commit suicide, but I will do everything possible and avoid using MS products.

It is time that we started turning our backs on MS since they have turned theirs on us. The crumbs of VFP7 are no longer enough.

Sorry about my rambling but I hope it helps.

>Hi everybody. I haven't been around in a while. I did something really stupid. I left a good, comfortable job to take a chance on what seemed like a dream job. It turned out to be a nightmare.
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>So, now I'm unemployed. There isn't a big FoxPro market in my area, so I'm going to have to find some new skills. Most comapnies around here do Visual Basic or C++. I think I'd have a better chance teaching myself VB, so that's the direction I'm headed.
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>What I'm posting this for is to see if anyone has any suggestions on the best way to get up to speed in VB in a short amount of time. My husband has a couple VB5 books. Is VB6 close enough to 5 that they're usable, or do I need to get something more recent? Any good books for people that already know a visual language?
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>I know any search engine would turn up thousands of VB resources, but I'm coming here because I want the opinion of fellow Foxers, not some reviewer that thinks VB is the be all and end all of languages. I know, first thing I need to do is lose the negative attitude towards VB. :)
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>Any (helpful) suggestions on what I should do, VB or other, would be appreciated. I don't have much in savings, so whatever I do I need to do quick.
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>Thanks,
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>Michelle