Hector,

>I am glad you pointed out the Java similarity. I still don't understand why people is getting so excited about that when they are not using Java in the first place. Java has been around for a couple of years and a lot of people ignored it. Then, all of a suddent, having C# a Java-like syntax is great deal.

To me as a VFP developer and MS customer, it's a great deal to have C# because it widens my scope of doing things. And opportunity to learn Windows type of programming tool but similar to another popular tool JAVA which is not WINDOWS specific.

>Heck! C has have a standard syntax since the 70's and C++ since the late 80s (or early 90s) and that didn't make VFP developers chose C/C++ instead of VFP.

C/C++ is not a RAD tool but VFP and C# are RAD tools. In C#, you can rapidly create business apps as you do in VFP provided you already reach significant level of expertise on it. It's drag and drop and you can't do that in C/C++.

The advantage their is you're shooting 2 or 3 birds in one stone. It's easy for you to switch into Java, or J# with a little adjustment. In VB, you can not because everything outside of VB is foreign IMO.