Hi Dave..

First off, I hope all is well with you and yours...


I find it ironic that some would say that they like C# either because it is not VB or because it is not VFP-like. VFP is a GREAT language. The VFP Toolkit that Kamal has created is wonderful. I have long said that VB is like Fox without the Data Engine. Still, there we lots of functions VB did not have. The VFP toolkit for .NET addresses this issue.

I don't know what is worse, the fact that somebody has made the stupid argument of C# vs. VB .NET or the fact that people took the bait. It is about the framework, not the language.

It will be fun to see how this plays out...





>John,
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>>... The transition from VFP to VB and vice versa is a slam dunk because they are 80% the same language.
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>I agree. My first small .NET application recently was done in VB.NET (in fact, it was the first VB app I've ever done, except for a little VBScript in some web pages).
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>It was actually quite refreshing to see that the syntax closely mirrored VFP in many ways, where I still shudder and scratch my head a bit when I look at how to define classes, etc, in C#.
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>I'll probably learn a good bit about both along the way, but for this first small project, I was was immediately very productive with VB.NET.