Fabricator! Nice research there, John.

I did the same search for .NET in PA on Dice.COM. You are correct: 33 hits. Including jobs whose only reference to .NET are the characters "NET" which includes words like

Netegrity

Intranet

Net access

GSM network

Etc. Etc.

The vast majority of those 33 hits aren't .NET at all. Most of those are ".NET would be a plus" category and it's VS 6 work.

In other words, you didn't check your results before publishing them. Clearly on Dice .NET matches "network" and "Internet" and a slew of things that have nothing to do with .NET. So it's not 33, it's less than 10.

Are you always this sloppy with everything you post here? Apparently so.

FWIW, "Object Oriented" gets 22 hits in PA on Dice.COM. "Object Oriented AND .NET" (with Advanced -> boolean parsing selected, which appears to give more correct results) is 3 hits in PA on Dice.

Also FWIW, a seach of C# in PA on Dice.com comes up with 79 jobs!!!!!. Yet only one of the first 30 hits I briefly scanned is clearly for C#. The rest are all for C and C++. Therefore it appears the "#" character isn't significant on Dice.com, just like the "." in ".NET" doesn't appear to be significant either.

Keep it real.

**--** Steve



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>I peruse places like Dice.com everyonce in a while to see what dotnet skills people are looking for.
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>Across all regions...
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>59 hits for FoxPro
>1074 hits for VB
>637 hits for .NET
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>In PA (my state):
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>1 hit for FoxPro
>51 hits for VB
>33 hits for .NET
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>Enough Said... Of course, it is probably me scaring all the FoxPro jobs away...< s >...
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>On Monster.COM
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>Accross all regions
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>145 hits for Fox
>469 hits for .NET
>1237 hits for VB
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>In PA/Philly area
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>6 hits for FoxPro
>6 hits for .NET
>27 hits for VB
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>The tell tale sign is looking at the job descriptions. The jobs for Fox for most required skills in other areas besides fox.
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>Granted, this is not the sole source... but I believe it reflects the relevant overall trend...