I have been tasked to develop a white paper on VS.Net (C# in particular) and am allowed to use VFP as a comparison. I need links and comments from those of you here who are active in .Net development.

For example:

In VFP most of us have developed a set of class libraries based on VFP's native class definitions. I'm sure that in .Net one would do the same but how does one go about it.

We know that VFP supports record locking for pessimistic development. How do other databases do this. I would suggest a table that would store the first user into a record that can indicate to a 2nd user accessing that same record that it is locked. If I remember correctly, databases like SQL-Server or Oracle do not perform individual record locking.

How good is the .Net IDE? Any real obstacles when doing development, especially for forms, compared to VFP?

Anyway, you begin to get the idea. It is not a full comparison of the languages but I do need to find out about the good, the bad and the ugly about .Net. I've always managed work-arounds to problems in VFP so I need to know if .Net is just as good.

Thanks,
Steve