On Sun, Oct 5, 2008 at 9:43 AM, John Weller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I apologise for asking VB questions here but I know some of the team have > been dabbling with it and, as always, this seems the best place to get > sensible answers. > > I have been concerned for some time about using VFP for applications for > clients. If I were to walk under a bus my clients would be left with > applications that they couldn't get maintained easily due to the dearth of > VFP programmers in UK so I have been looking at alternatives. I am playing > with VB 2008 Express and finding relatively straightforward as it is so > similar to VFP in many ways. I do have some fundamental questions though > which I hope someone can answer - I've not been able to extract them from > the MS sales verbiage! > > What is the difference between Standard and Professional Editions? --------------------- Already given site for that info
> Can I create standalone exes for royalty free distribution in a similar > manner to VFP? ---------------- Sure in WinForms as well as Web ones. > What does the upgrade edition require - I have VFP 9 and Visual Studio 6, > would they suffice? ------------------------------------- Probably not. I think it is off of VS2003, 2005 > I know I can connect to an Access or SQL Server database - can I connect to > a VFP or Postgre SQL database? -------------------------- Yep. No problem. > Can I buy VB.Net as a standalone or must I buy the full Visual Studio? > > Can anyone recommend a suitable forum to ask other questions, ideally as > friendly and helpful as Profox or Foxite? ---------------------------- the UT is fair for .NET To be honest I would buy Rocky's book http://www.lhotka.net/ Business Objects in VB and teh framework CSLA is a great heads up on just what you can do with Visual Studio. The framework is free and the book covers a lot of it. For getting help, there are hundreds of sites that post how to projects. Is there a site like this? Nope. I follow blogs now. Because Visual Studio is so vast in what you can do, I follow bloggers in a few areas. Silverlight and WPF. -- Stephen Russell Sr. Production Systems Programmer Mimeo.com Memphis TN 901.246-0159 _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
