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Yes, it's not the end of the world, it's the beginning of a new experience for me. I have started to develop in C#. I was avoiding this move to be honest I didn't want to, but since there are almost no more jobs for a Visual FoxPro Developer, I had to start. I choose  C# over VB, because there are more Jobs, it's an international standard language now and the most important to me IT'S NOT VB. :)

I know VB it's a new and powerful language, but it was VB, and that is enough for my personal point of view.

I choose C# over Java, because I'm sadly used to Microsoft Tools, but I will keep my eye on Java, seems impressive for me.

Also I choose C#, because I think Microsoft it's not going to kill it soon (I hope not...)

As for my learning, well actually I started learning last week, by reading the great book of .Net for Visual FoxPro Developers, at the same time I downloaded all the Visual Studio 2008 express editions and installed on my PC, next I started to look for videos, since it's an easier way to learn, and I found some videos from Microsoft site, to be exact the site address is http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/express/aa700758.aspx I downloaded all the videos, and started to watching them. To be honest, the first videos where really boring since we as VFP developers have a great amount of knowledge and after those beginners videos I already consider my self an intermediate Developer or at least not beginner.

The next step I took, was to start transforming my simplest VFP applications to C#, but I tried to follow the good fundamentals I had from VFP. Until now, I must say, that I love the IDE, and I can't stop thinking "Why Microsoft never gave this support to VFP", seriously why???? with the same amount of support and advertising VFP would be really popular.

Until now, everything it's ok, the transition hasn't been as hard as I thought it would be.

Anyway I hope to become a good C# developer, and as always keep on working and developing in my beloved VFP for as long as I can.

If anyone has done this before has a good free source of information to make this process easier, please put it in the comments.

Local loListener As ReportListener, lcTargetFile As String, lcMasterPassword As String, lcUserPAssword As String,;
lcMergeFileName As String

lcTargetFile="MyPDfFile"
lcMasterPassword="master"
lcUserPassword="user"
lcMergeFileName="existingPDF"
loListener = NewObject('PdfListener1', 'QuickFRX2PDF.vcx','QuickFRX2PDF.App')
loListener.TargetFileName = lcTargetFile
loListener.QuietMode=.F. &&Put .T. to turn off messagges
loListener.EncryptDocument=.F. &&Put .T. to Encrypt Document
If loListener.EncryptDocument
	loListener.MasterPassword=lcMasterPassword
	loListener.UserPassword=lcUserPassword
EndIf
loListener.MergeDocument=.F. &&Put .T. to Merge Document with an Existing PDF
If loListener.MergeDocument
	loListener.MergeDocumentName=lcMergeFileName &&Name of the existing file to be merged with
EndIf
loListener.OpenViewer=.T. &&Put .F. to prevent Acrobat Reader from being opened
Report Form myrerport.frx Object loListener

Local loListener As ReportListener, lcTargetFile As String, lcMasterPassword As String, lcUserPAssword As String,;
lcMergeFileName As String

lcTargetFile="MyPDfFile"
lcMasterPassword="master"
lcUserPassword="user"
lcMergeFileName="existingPDF"
loListener = NewObject('PdfListener2', 'QuickFRX2PDF.vcx','QuickFRX2PDF.App') &&By calling PdfListener2 we create a PDF File as image.
loListener.TargetFileName = lcTargetFile
loListener.QuietMode=.F. &&Put .T. to turn off messagges
loListener.EncryptDocument=.F. &&Put .T. to Encrypt Documente
If loListener.EncryptDocument
	loListener.MasterPassword=lcMasterPassword
	loListener.UserPassword=lcUserPassword
EndIf
loListener.MergeDocument=.F. &&Put .T. to Merge Document with an Existing PDF
If loListener.MergeDocument
	loListener.MergeDocumentName=lcMergeFileName &&Name of the existing file to be merged with
EndIf
loListener.OpenViewer=.T. &&Put .F. to prevent Acrobat Reader from being opened
Report Form myrerport.frx Object loListener