Hi Mel,

>Sounds like you are staying busy. How is the C# learning curve going for you?

I did some C programming in the early nineties. I had done a little C# about two years ago. To be honest, I find it fairly straightforward - its just OOP and a framework <s> (sounds like Codemine).

So overall, I like it as long as you don't try and compare it with Fox. Some things are very easy to accomplish in C#. Where I am working, Fox is used where Fox is good (the line of business system - about 300 users) and C# is used for some "tools" and smaller utilities, Windows services and the intranet based reporting portal. I have written a new Codemine dataaccess subclass for using SQL Stored Procedures for all data access (no views or passthru) - the current VFP app uses remote views. So, I am refactoring the existing Fox app to use Codemine and Stored Procedure data access.

The idea is that all data access to the SQL servers will be via stored procedures. This allows for greater security but, it also means that eventually, this will provide a data access "API" that can be used from .Net and other thin client access technologies. I guess at that point, they will dump Fox. This gives a longer term migration path with development that is relevent to the next generation technologies.

Best,