I think the point here is emphasized by what you are saying. Rather than screaming "TRAITOR" when our Fox Friends and general guruship are learning and encouraging us to learn .NET we should be grateful the early adopters have gone out there on the bleeding edge and made this new stuff more accessible to the rest of us.

I bought MM .NET figuring it would be a cool way to see what someone I respect had done in design decisions, what C# code that worked looked like, and so I'd have a way of splashing around in the .NET IDE and actually getting some apps up. I did this even as my emotional favorite - F1 Technologies - has not yet announced its own plans in this direction.

I agree that Rod's and Markus's efforts will be worthwhile investments for the same reason.

If I have learned anything from making a VERY good living using VFP to solve business problems is that a few bucks spent on tools are the best bucks you'll ever spend and if you can't recoup your investment 100 to 1 you're just not using the tools correctly < s >

Floundering around in VFP without a robust framework is just silly and I think .NET, though it is a framework, will benefit greatly from the tools, tips and general advice being offered from those who have Fox in their hearts and a lot of money from Fox in their wallets and who still realize it's a big world out there - and it pretty much belongs to Microsoft < bg >.

We should be grateful the developer tool builders are making new technologies even more accessible.

Like Andy (who's younger than I am ) I could ride VFP work into retirement. I don't have a boss and I can program in whatever I damn well please. But like Rod and Markus, I think learning this new stuff is fun and I can't wait to try new stuff in .NET while I'm still raking it in from the Fox.

That's all the people like Rod who are trying to share their excitement are advocating and I find it amusing that so many people seem so threatened by what is just empirically good advice.

Oh, and about Rod as a gambler - as his mentor I can assure you he's a very quick study, has guts to spare, and generally wins.

>Hey Rodman ... how's things goin'
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>Both you and Marcus are working on frameworks too ... that's good to know. I've already bought Kevin's. When yours comes out ... I'll buy it ... when Marcus' comes out ... I'll buy it too. I want to see as many different approaches as there are viewpoints.
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>Thanks for the info,
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>CT