Hi Ed,
I'm getting ready to dive head first into C#. Just ordered 2 books from Wrox Beginning C# and Pro C#. I did a fair amount of work in C back in the early 80's then got away from it before C++ came around. Is C# considered a subset of C++ or does C# have all the functionality of C++? The version of C I used was a very minimual langauge. If I remember correctly it had only 32 keywords and took lot's coding to accomplish much, which was the main reason for learning Basic, and Fox.

Thanks,

>I agree with you, but not your reasons. For you, the reason that the (IMO) more elegant C# is more attractive to you than VB.Net is stated well in your tag line:
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>Visual FoxPro: Because life is too short to code in C++...
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>You've already spent the time and learned enough to know that life is to sort to code in C++ - you've already learned C++, so the language makes sense to you. I think many VFP developers are afraid to learn C# because C++ is...hard?
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>I think the VFP community should focus on C# as well rather than VB.Net, but for different reasons. Being syntactically different than VFP at a fundamental level, there is less for them to unlearn; if they know VB, they don't have to "unlearn" habits acquired previously in VB, and they'll make fewer assumptions about behavior because of perceived or imagined similarities between VFP syntax and C#.
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>To a degree, it's parallel to reinstalling Windows over your existing platform in the hopes that a little freshening will clean things up, vs FDISK, FORMAT and install fresh. You have a better chance making a fresh start of ending up with a good, solid foundation if you start from the beginning and build a fresh base than if you try to keep what you have now going, and try to jury rig things to keep it going, on the argument that you don't have a half-day to spend reinstalling Office, VFP, etc.
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>Ed (spending the afternoon reinstalling XP from scratch)