[eno_]

You need to learn Visual C# or app-server-oriented Java. Visual FoxPro is too low-end. The Visual Studio .NET stuff rocks, and if you learn that and then keep an eye on Python and Apache-based app server technology, you will have a bright future. The key is to realize that everything you know will be worthless in 36 months or less.

[Red Jones]

thanks for that advice, I know it's very good advice. But regarding VFP, we VFP people feel compelled to defend it. VFP is absolutely excellent for building interfaces with users for relational database work. It's fantastic at doing complex algorithms, it's got lots of commands for processing data. It also processes data very quickly. With my class library that takes full advantage of code encapsulation OOP style I feel very confident that I can outperform 95% of the VB programmers if the goal is to merely build a system that will function on a desktop or on a small network. So, I wouldn't describe VFP as low-end myself. But as someone else pointed out to me, it simply doesn't do well with very large amounts of data at back-end or across internet.

But that's very good advice you gave me. It would be easy for me to switch to VB. But C# seems to have a good future.

I've already decided though what I'll do. I'll continue trying to market software I wrote that is primarilly for small businesses that don't have huge data at back-end and don't care about VFP's problems. If that doesn't work out, then in a few months I'll go back to construction management which is what I did prior to 10 years ago.