I haven't played with the VB.Net beta yet so I'm not much help there. Regardless, at this time I don't think you can give a definitive assesment of VB.Net's features, given the beta situation. From what I read on the magazines beta 2 may differ considerably from beta 1. Any code conversion efforts at this time are a bit on the risky side.

Some comments on your questions:
6) Yes they need the .Net framework. It will install the CLR which contains the equivalent of the runtime files for .Net languages.
8) It is my understanding that .Net will be part of newer versions of Windows.
9) Apparently this would be possible if somebody does a port of the framework. MS has made the specification available to a standards body.

This is from the glimpses you can read on the information that has been made available to date. Who knows what the final features will be. Knowing the sudden pulling of features from beta to release I would consider the above just a notch over sheer speculation.

>Hi,
>I am a VFP developer and Im moving all my coding to VB.NET and trying to develop base classes. For My forms and all controls.
>I have a few questions.
>
>1. I have a button in my base class, in the click event I have some code. but I would like to overide that code with my subclassed Button.
> I made the Base class click event overridable, how to I define my click event in the subclass. I know there is an override keyword but how do I use it ?
>
>2. Is it true in VB.NET you can only call the parent class method when you use mybase.[method]()
>
>3. Is there a numeric text box like the date control text box.
>
>4. I have built a project with for ecah of my subclassed controls. Can I include these projects in more than one project? because I would like to reuse the controls in all my projects I develop.
>
>5. When I am subclassing all my VB.NET controls can they all be included in one DLL. Because its a pain to create a dll for every subclassed control.
>
>6. When I compile my applications in VB.NET do the client systems need the .NET FRAMEwork ?
>7. Do i just distribute one small EXE like DOS days.
>8. Is the .NET Framework part of windows ?
>9. Can I run my VB.NET Exe on any other platform like java ?
>
>10. The Reason Why I kept away from VB is that its not a proper OOP language. The new features seem to be very promising do you see any limitations when comparing it to VFP 6(ONLY OOP) if you are familiar with it.
>
>
>I will send some more questions but thats all i have for now.
>
>TIA
>FRED