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What is Visual FoxPro (Discontinued)?
FoxPro is a programming language and DBMS formerly supported by Microsoft, now at its End of Life.
Old technology but still alive!
FoxPro, Long in the tooth but still Foxy
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What is Visual FoxPro (Discontinued)?
FoxPro is a programming language and DBMS formerly supported by Microsoft, now at its End of Life.
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(1-3 of 3)Visual FoxPro Programmers
- Structured language easy access to database.
- Access to VFP programmers.
- 3rd party plugins and wizards available that help in application development.
- Moving to iOS and Android is not possible.
- Support from Microsoft.
- We were able to provide VFP services to several customers.
- It’s a technology that is still being used by many Fortune 1000 and 500 companies hence we see a good ROI.
Old technology but still alive!
- Treat data from files
- Reporting
- error handling
- User interface
It is easy to generate/design reports of those data.
- We are using FoxPro because that is the only way to add custom plugins in the software we use to manage our stock.
- So, FoxPro is suitable for this need.
- We are developing software in c# .NET, compared to this, FoxPro is clearly out-dated.
- borland c++ builder, c# .net, c++ and Visual Studio
- Files manipulation
- Create reports
- Pass data to one form to another
- Error handling
FoxPro, Long in the tooth but still Foxy
- It is very fast to access data in SQL, Access, and other ODBC languages.
- It has a lot of great code examples available on the web for free.
- It has a lot of wizards to aid in application development, both from Microsoft and from third parties.
- It is a structured language, so supportable code is fairly easy to create.
- There are still a lot of FoxPro experts available to call on if needed.
- Microsoft stopped selling this and stopped supporting it in 2014. It still works on Windows 10, but if you have a problem, you are on your own.
- The look and feel of screens and displayed text is getting a little dated.
- It's really designed for desktop/server environments rather than the cloud.
- Positive impact is that the value of FoxPro applications has continued to increase over the years, so we are in high demand for our services.
- Negative impact is that sometimes you have difficult to support scenarios where you might have to spend many hours to just keep something functional.
- A negative impact is that this language is taught in very few places, either in schools, or private learning centers.
- FoxPro beats Access in several ways. It is generally faster and leads to more supportable code.
- FoxPro loses to the programming language C in speed and flexibility. You can run C on almost any platform out there.
- FoxPro has better report writing and screen development tools than out of the box MS SQL.
- Java beats Foxpro for web application development and platform flexibility.