>Craig:
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>I agree with you here 100%. However, It would be nice if Microsoft would publish a document--marketed to "Hiring Personal"--stating that VFP developers will make excellent .NET developers( C# and VB.NET).

I don't see how you can make that statement because each developer has different abilities. Some have the ability take to .NET like ducks to water, others will come along more slowly, and still others will never move there.

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>From my personal experiece, almost every recuiter, hiring director, or .NET developer that I have talked to believe that VFP is like dBase. They don't understand that VFP developers are very experienced in OOP and event driven programming.

You need to help them understand this as MS already has published statements as to what VFP is.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/vfoxpro/productinfo/overview/default.aspx
http://msdn.microsoft.com/vfoxpro/productinfo/features/default.aspx

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>For what's it worth I belong to a local .NET users group:
>http://www.migang.org/Default.aspx
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>Almost all of these people think that VFP is a dBase language[think obsolete in this context], or worse never heard of it.
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>I'm not angry, I'm just frustrated that I'm at the bottom of the totem pole in the eyes of people that do the hiring/recuiting--below C++, Visual basic 6.0, and Java developers.