Ken,
VFP has always been about speed, power, and 1-upping VB (like I need to tell you...). I think that's why you're seeing more of an interest in C# among VFPers than VB.NET ...
>>Analysis: Interesting article. Here's another developer who prefers C# for RAD development in .NET...
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>For the next major release of VS .NET called VS for Yukon (Yukon is the next major version of SQL Server), the VB .NET team is focused on RAD while the C# team is focused on core language innovation. Have you read the VS .NET Roadmap doc at http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/productinfo/roadmap.asp yet? For questions or comments on this doc, they are better directed at Alan Griver and not myself since my focus is on VFP 8.0 on the VFP team, but I thought I'd pass this along as an FYI.
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>Extended innovation on each of the four major Microsoft languages.
>Developers gravitate to the languages in Visual Studio for the unique roles they play: Visual Basic is the most productive, Visual C++ offers the greatest power and control, Visual C# advances the state-of-the-art in language capabilities, and Visual J# enables Java-language developers to build applications on the .NET Framework. In the "Visual Studio for Yukon" release, Microsoft will build on these roles and innovate in each of the four languages to deepen the synergies between tool and language.