You will likely receive a lot of recommendations on Takenote, which is Jim Booth's school. One that I heartily recommend. They have a "take out" set of books (paperback) with a CDROM of assignments, code, etc. That course is priced at around $500 or so. I have used it in training new developers.
The problem is that it will just really scratch the surface of VFP development, and will leave the student relying on practical experience to increase skills.

As one who has walked the path you mention, I have a completely different recommendation that worked much better for me and at less cost to management.

First, I would provide each of those developers a copy of or access to "Hackers guide to Visual FoxPro 6.0." This book, with code samples, humor, and practicality not only discusses the functions available in VFP, but which ones to use as opposed to another. I consider it an excellent resource on "best practices;" as well. It is easy to read, well organized, and a great resource to the entry level as well as the journeyman VFP developer.

Second, is a relativey new Book, by Cindy and Evan (Hey Evan, I got my autographed copy!) on VFP certification. I mention it here not so much to shove that new staff right into certification, but there is a tremendous amount of good resources on COM, OLE, and all those other acronyms that enable VFP to talk to other data as well as it's own database tables. Trust me, the certification exam is a COM certification much more than a FoxPro one.

These two books with the resources contained in them, will bridge a great gap in assisting those DOS developers to see how VFP works, and to use it in a practical way.

The risk in not training them in the Visual version is that you will end up with the 2.5 programs in VFP clothing, which will run, but will be a performance dog.

There has been much conversation about "converting" those legacy applications, however, with experience, I strongly recommend a revised design plan, and completely rewriting in the Visual platform. You will find this much faster and more solid than trying to use conversion wizards and patched code.

Any classroom training you will be able to purchase will be expensive, and will only touch on the very basics. The practical reason is that you cannot make a VFP developer in only a week, or even two weeks. There is still a cost as they do the practicum to develop experience. Just train them in the habit of saving and organizing those expensive code snippets for later use in other applications.

All this being said, who says that the independent consultant is expensive? <g>


my 0.02 worth (which seems to differ from others from time to time)


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>I need to find Visual FoxPro training for two developers who have extensive knowledge of dBASE III+/IV and FoxPro 2.6 for DOS. We will be redesigning our internal FoxPro 2.6 for DOS applications in Visual FoxPro over the next 2 years. I am interested in some type of classroom-based training that will start with more than just the basics of Visual FoxPro since these developers already have database knowledge.
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>We will be using SQL Server 7.0 as a back end for the Visual FoxPro 6.0 front end, and I was hoping that some training might be customized for how to use VFP with SQL Server calls to access data.
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>Please let me know where I should look... preferably in the states surrounding New York. My head is spinning from all of the research and ideas that I have, and I'd just like an honest opinion from real hardcore developers for a change. Any comments on the length, quality, and quantity of training that you think would be appropriate is greatly appreciated! Thanks!
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>- Chris Style