>Whats has your statement got to do with the price of fish? For once, I think I agreed with you. Jess was saying his friend was happy because Delphi was going into .Net - I am simply stated that the syntax of Delphi is about all that will be familiar because the real task is in learning the framework and its classes -- or have you changed your mind on that point now ?

They are happy because their FAVORITE tool will play natively with .NET. Well, I must admit that I am very unhappy because VFP will not be VFP.Net because it's my favorite tool and I will be forced to learn another one from scratch.