Archive for the ‘Visual Foxpro’ Category

The history of FoxPro

Not that anyone might not have pointed to this before, but, it is always nice to revisit and refresh where its all coming from. Here is a nice link which lays out the history of FoxPro starting 1984 till date. Surprisingly it does not mention Sedna or any of the related projects and releases!!!! Looks like […]

April 10, 2007 · Rahul Desai · No Comments
Posted in: Visual Foxpro

FoxPro users petition to keep database language alive

This link was published on Universal thread, good to know that the MasFoxProo petition, as of Sunday 8th April 2007 had garnered more than 2,400 signatures. Link to FoxPro users petition to keep database language alive Technorati tags: Visual Foxpro, VFP, Microsoft, Rahul Desai, MasFoxPro

April 10, 2007 · Rahul Desai · No Comments
Posted in: Visual Foxpro

Microsoft considers releasing Visual FoxPro source code

Here are the excerpts from the link below: Check out the link below for full details: Link to Microsoft considers releasing Visual FoxPro source code Some good positive news for VFP developers and community. Thanks to MasFoxPro, or More FoxPro in English…something may materialize! Technorati tags: Visual Foxpro, VfP, Microsoft, MasFoxPro, Rahul Desai

April 8, 2007 · Rahul Desai · One Comment
Posted in: Visual Foxpro

Microsoft faces a challenge to its decision last month to not offer a successor to its Visual FoxPro 9 developer tool

Here are the excerpts from the article (link mentioned below). Petitioners urge Microsoft  to choose one of four paths: 1. Continue developing Visual FoxPro 2. Release source code to open source community 3. Have a third party continue the development 4. Sell the product to another company All interesting….lets see how it ends up! Link […]

April 7, 2007 · Rahul Desai · No Comments
Posted in: General, Visual Foxpro

Monthly VFP newsletter from the VFP Program Manager

Now that Microsoft has announced the future path for VFP, it would be of interest to follow up what Milind Lele does about the Monthly newsletter on VFP. Would he still continue publishing the newsletter? What information would he have to publish in the newsletter? (Other than sedna projects). Technorati tags: Visual Foxpro, VFP, Microsoft, […]

April 2, 2007 · Rahul Desai · No Comments
Posted in: Visual Foxpro

Results from OzFox 2007 survey….

Craig Bailey has published some interesting survey results, done during the OzFox 2007 VFP conference, here is the link: http://craigbailey.blogspot.com/2007/03/vfp-Ozfox-quick-survey-results.html Not surprising to see all the flavors of FoxPro still being used. Great survey….thanks for the information Craig. Technorati tags: Visual Foxpro, Microsoft, Talman, Craig Bailey, Rahul Desai, OzFox

March 27, 2007 · Rahul Desai · No Comments
Posted in: Talman news, Visual Foxpro

VFP application talking to AS400 through MQseries…

Continuing from my last post on Project management issues, regarding VFP application talking to AS400 through MQseries, I would like to announce that Castro has successfully completed the integration. Talman must be the only company who would have done this, not that many require it, but you feel proud when something unique has been done […]

March 18, 2007 · Rahul Desai · No Comments
Posted in: Tools, Tips & Utilities, Visual Foxpro

Managing and Planning for Critical tasks….

Again some common project management mistakes, which becomes critical and become root cause of the project failures. I am talking about not identifying and not pre-planning for Critical tasks. The current project I am working on has a similar critical task of integrating VFP application with AS400 applications through use of MQ-series messaging. The development […]

March 17, 2007 · Rahul Desai · No Comments
Posted in: Project Management, Software Engineering, Talman news, Visual Foxpro

Microsoft…thanks for a "Clear" message

I received a message from Craig Bailey, who is attending the MVP summit in Seattle USA and he mentioned the following: (Message from Craig Bailey) just a quick note to let you know about some VFP news that is just breaking… this afternoon YAG  (Yair Alan Griver) met with all of us VFP MVP’s and […]

March 14, 2007 · Rahul Desai · No Comments
Posted in: Visual Foxpro

VFP and Crystal Reports …..

Here is a VFP class which talks to Crystal reports. I downloaded this in 2005 and just got a chance to review this, could not recollect from where I downloaded this, but have the author’s email luisnavas48@hotmail.com . I am publishing this on my downloads section, the author has a sad story about his son….please read […]

March 6, 2007 · Rahul Desai · No Comments
Posted in: Visual Foxpro