So far my impression is that unless you are working with .net on a daily basis it is difficult to retain. A person does have to have a life. For an independent like myself it will require several months of "downtime" to get .net into my toolbag. If I lived in the US that would be impossible.


>You're as bad as I am. I spent months playing with .NET heavily on weeknights and weekends and then had to stop completely while I spent the last 3 months working til 1:00-2:00am 7 days a week to get a project in VFP8 done on time. Now those .NET books just sit there while I recuperate... :o) I'll probably pick them back up in month or so...
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>>I don't think anyone has a problem with people who are making the change now out of choice or necessity. It's the nature of the business. I have 7 .NET/C# books on the shelf in my office.
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>>I just don't have time to read them... ;/
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>>>>>To those listening in, I don't have to back up or substantiate anything I say here so don't bother fishing for an argument.
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>>>Eric,
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>>>I'm not fishing for an argument, but I'd just like to make one comment about this:
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>>>>>I would also add that it seems as though the members of the MS developer community that are most eager to jump on the latest bandwagon are those among us that make a pretty good living doing nothing but writing and speaking (and teaching) about new technologies.<
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>>>I don't know how true or not that statement is in the general community, but in my case it's not. We switched to .NET for the simple reason that we started a new company two years ago, so we had to write a new application from scratch ... what better time to dig in and learn the new, latest technology? No baggage of converting an old VFP app to .NET, since we no longer had the old VFP app. We got the opportunity to start fresh with new ideas. It's been a fun (and frustrating) experience. And it's kinda funny, but everyone we talk to about buying our software just loves "our technology", or so they say anyway.
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>>>Just my 2 cents ...
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>>>~~Bonnie