March 27, 2007 at 11:11 am
I am so sad to hear that.
I start my database experience with Foxpro 2.0 on Dos version and then improved till version 7.0
FoxPro gave me the vision and ability to programm in network enviroment on Novell for databases and I learned a lot for it.
I will always remember FoxPro and will always be proud to be a foxpro programmer.
Patrick
March 28, 2007 at 1:17 am
Won't the demise of VFP give more space to Access?
March 28, 2007 at 8:11 am
I doubt Access grows. More likely people will shift to VB.NET instead. VFP was a full featured development environment, with lots of OOP built into the product. You could develop classes, inherit functionality from parent modules, build a GUI, write code to handle almost anything you want, include COM modules.
Access is more of an end-user tool.
February 16, 2009 at 10:50 am
Actually I'm a huge fan of VFP. It's true that it has very nice OOP features. Combined with it's data engine it gives you a unique feel of freedom to create!
The good news is it's still alive, despite all the news we've listened all these years. It's officially supported till 2015.
February 16, 2009 at 7:37 pm
I recently saw a thread in this site that VFP is missing data using SQL Server for persistence so why use VFP when you can use SQL Server Express and Oracle Express with free VS2005/8 editions for web and Winform.
And it is not skill that is relevant because I just searched Dice and careerbuilder with combined result of 3 jobs for all US search.
Kind regards,
Gift Peddie
February 16, 2009 at 9:47 pm
VFP isn't heavily used, but when it is, it's been fairly popular. I'm not sure it's worth learning, but if you know it, there are probably positions out there for you.
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