On Sun, Nov 11, 2012 at 7:49 AM, Wes Wilson wrote:
> Kurt,
>
>
> A business person's very first question is always "Can I afford this
> solution?” not "Is this the best language?". If he can afford it, the next
> question is "Do I want to put that much of my limited resources into this
> project?
Needs are changing fast and VFP is in a frozen state.
For web interfaces, probably, for desktop apps - no.
VFP is good
dbf's - not
dbc's - maybe
if you don't do them already look at remote views, cursoradapters,
scatter this
VFP will do mySQL, postgreSQL, TSQL, Oracle, ... any ado or odbc
c
dot net
version is running.
John Harvey
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On Sun, Nov 11, 2012 at 7:49 AM, Wes Wilson
Hello again Wes,
I saw you sent me this same email to me offline from this list - but,
figured I would make my response.
Bad enough I lost my job - now, today - Sunday - in sunny weather - we
just lost our power again - along with a lot of our surronding
neighbors. So - now I sit on my lapto
PHP
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Subject: Re: Do NOT use "old" FoxPro?
Hello again Wes,
I saw you sent me this same email to me offline
.
Al
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From: Kurt @ VR-FX
Sent: 11 November 2012 17:54
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CC: Wes Wilson
Subject: Re: Do NOT use "old" FoxPro?
So - truth is - I've already been giving this a lot of thought in the
past 24 hours. One option I was thinking -
# as the web service.
Al
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From: Kurt @ VR-FX
Sent: 11 November 2012 17:54
To: profoxt...@leafe.com
CC: Wes Wilson
Subject: Re: Do NOT use "old" FoxPro?
So - truth is - I've already been giving this a lot of thought in the
past 24 hours. One option
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Cc: Wes Wilson
Subject: Re: Do NOT use "old" FoxPro?
Hello again Wes,
I saw you sent me this same email to me offline from this list - but, figured I
would make my response.
Bad enough I lost my job - now, today - Sunday - in sunny weather - we just
lost our power again - alon
On 11/11/12 07:02, AndyHC wrote:
VFP is good
dbf's - not
dbc's - maybe
I'd modify that list just a little:
VFP is _still_ good
dbf's - use a SQL database instead
dbc's - never were any good!
Dan
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On Sun, Nov 11, 2012 at 3:05 PM, Kurt @ VR-FX wrote:
> AFAIK - this is a Desktop app - and not web based at all. But, again - my
> buddy has so far given me VERY Little information!
>
> But - I do like the idea that I could use VFP code - and use it WITH
> C#/.Net - which is definitely a selling
I have found dbc's useful as a transition stage starting with local
tables > local views > remote views;
later I found cursoradapters, which I think came too late in FoxPro
evolution to be fully appreciated - as pointed out in a different post
it is useful to be able to drag your data onto a for
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