I know that there are papers and books on moving from VFP to VB and C# Dot Net, but I have read that you catch on a lot quicker to Dot Net if you have already worked a lot in an object oriented environment, such as is available with VFP.
However, while I know how to call objects and have created a few simple classes in my VFP programming days, I have never delved into it extensively. So, I am wondering, for anyone who has already made the jump from VFP to VB or C# Dot Net, would you think it better for me to first aggressively get more familiar with object orientation in VFP, with which I am more familiar, or to go straight into the Dot Net?
On that note, if it might be a better option to first get more comfortable with creating and working with objects in my much more familiar environment of VFP, the only book I know of that really goes over the basics in principled form is "Advanced Object Oriented Programming with Visual FoxPro 6.0", which would seem a bit outdated.
Any advice or opinions?
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Book-wise:
.NET for Visual FoxPro Developers
http://www.hentzenwerke.co
Visual FoxPro to Visual Basic .NET
http://ebooks.ebookmall.co
C# Essentials
http://www.oreilly.com/cat
A Programmer's Introduction to Visual Basic.NET eBook
http://www.ebookmall.com/e
Simce the other link to this book has a URL-truncating comma in it, here's another link:
A Programmer's Introduction to Visual Basic.Net
http://books.google.com/bo
I suggest that you get really comfortable with OOP independent of any language first then jump into .net. Since VFP has great OOP - if you have already been using VFP extensively that way then the jump to .NET is pretty painless. Les Pinter's book Visual FoxPro to Visual Basic .NET is one of the links above and it is a great choice for anyone making the jump. There are some great OOP books but also some great free, short online tutorials like http://www.atomicobject.co
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