Hi Jerry,

Thanks for your reply!

Last two months I've been involved (I'm still) in the development of an app that deals with NT users/groups/permissions and the alike. The only tool I had in my toolbox was VFP, and found it very difficult to work with all those NT API calls without a C background (most of then work with pointers and structures). Hopefully I found great assistance from people here at UT, and found that they had a good C background. In my early programming days, back in the beginning of the ´70s, I used to program in IBM/UNIVAC assembly language and in the midlle of the 80's with Burroughs DCAlgol, along with COBOL and PL/I. Now I though that need no more low level languages to accomplish some of those tasks, but found many people developing common business apps using C/C++ and Java, like the recently purchased JDE OneWorld ERP system contracted by one of my clients. So what I might think? I'm missing something, just looking at VFP! Of course I may be wrong, and just had a distorted view of the whole developers tools market.

Anyway, I find VFP a great tool, and don't want to leave it, just think I must add some more to my toolbox as you said. Would you please help me a bit more? What do you think should it be my right choice at the moment: C++ or C#? What I want? Better understanding of the behind the scenes action, the ability to build wrapped win API function calls (to easy VFP usage), my own functions (those that could not be done easily in VFP) etc. I don't mean (if that's not necessary) to build apps in C++/C# of course!

Thanks again for your help and time, I apreciated!

Regards,

Fernando