Not quite accurate. VFP is no longer being updated by Microsoft, but it is
still supported until 2015.
like Visual Studio.
time and with less code than in Visual Studio.
Post by Hii Sing ChungWell, thanks a lot for the information. I've chance to speak to those
people who sell the UBS software. It is very popular in Malaysia. No,
commercial schools taught UBS system, not VFP. Since VFP is nolonger
supported by Microsoft, it is not logical for schools to teach such a
programming language. UBS has to sign agreement with Microsoft inorder to
support the VFP. UBS migh move away from VFP, the latest release uses SQL
server backend. who know, sooner or later the whole system will be not be
in VFP (I cannot assure what will happen in future, but who can unturn the
tide?). Just 2 days ago I was at KL HQ and a girl when pressed on a print
button inside UBS program, got a endless looping saying ZLANGUAGE variable
not found, and could not exit the program. We spent 2 weeks tried to
activate the latest UBS software on our server, given up totally last
week. Such a thing should not happen. In VS, at the time of coding, it
already can check through your code and highlight possible run-time error,
and programmer can step-by-step debug through the program. Malaysia can be
better off...shhh. when I started to play with VFP, actually I feel that I
am moving backwards quite a number of years (yes you asked me before, I am
here to help a friend who got all these programs but he has no time).
Surely you can write very good program out of VFP, but in business what is
important is efficiency (such as how fast, how easy and how little code
you need to produce a program of the same magnitude and the same operating
efficiency when comparing between the tools).
Yes, let me try to see If I can find helpful VFP expert here. To say that
there are many in Malaysia is not true (say compare to number of
programmers who are proficient in VB/C#). My circle here is really small,
only 2 months presence after leaving this place 15 years ago.
Post by swdev2There are many in Malaysia.
In fact, there are schools which teach it as part of the curricula.
In fact, there is huge gov-authorized accounting program that is written in
vfp, with sales offices throughout Malaysia - JB - KL, Penang, KTT even.
Your Circle is small.
Suggest you post a job offer on Foxite.com and on the malaysia vfp yahoo
group site over at
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/malaysiafoxprousergroup
It's not been so active, about 1/4 of the stuff is spam, but you'll still be
able to find a VFP developer IN Malaysia IF YOU ACTUALLY JOIN THE GROUP AND
POST YOUR JOB OFFER.
Good Luck, and .... *GASP*** Welcome to VFP. To be competent with this
programming language, you'll need to learn more. BUY THE BOOKS at
www.hentzenwerke.com
xie xie [Bill]
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Post by Hii Sing ChungMalaysia.
Post by swdev2Where is 'here' ?
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Post by Hii Sing ChungWell, all those programs were written by a Foxpro novice, very simple
programs, but I can see the problems of using them in a large-scale
manufacturing environment. In my life I've never seen any Foxpro
developers,
Post by Hii Sing Chungnone from my colleagues, friends, classmates, schoolmates,
university-mates,
Post by Hii Sing Chungstudents, vendors, suppliers, none of anyone that I ever met. Maybe you
still can manage to find them in your country but here, difficult, if
not
Post by Hii Sing ChungPost by swdev2Post by Hii Sing Chungimpossible.
Post by swdev2You need to redo your architecture a bit.
Of course it will appear slow, you've copied the exact architecture
from
the
previous company.
OTOH - why are you there? It's a series of foxpro programs, yer
not
a
Post by Hii Sing ChungPost by swdev2Post by Hii Sing ChungPost by swdev2foxpro developer, are you somebody's cousin?
Tell the owner to get in a foxpro developer and re-engineer that
thingie
to
work right on that architecture.
My apologies for sounding harsh - but 'to be slow' is not an issue of
vfp.
Post by Hii Sing ChungPost by swdev2Not replacing those crappy 10 m/b ethernet cards is whats gonna kill
you.
Post by Hii Sing ChungPost by swdev2VPN? na, go terminal server instead.
xie xie [Bill]
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www.terrafox.net www.viasqlserver.net
Post by Hii Sing ChungHi,
My company has a few small programs written in Foxpro. I am not
familiar
Post by Hii Sing ChungPost by swdev2Post by Hii Sing Chungwith this program language/database. The company does have concern over
security of the database and speed of access (through network) which
were
Post by Hii Sing ChungPost by swdev2Post by Hii Sing Chungthe major problems encountered when running these programs in the previous
company. I am looking at re-writting the programs using Visual Basic
and
Post by Hii Sing ChungPost by swdev2SLQ
Post by Hii Sing Chungserver express, is it a sensible or logical approach? Is it possible
(or
Post by Hii Sing ChungPost by swdev2is
Post by Hii Sing Chungit recommended) to connect using ODBC to dbf file stored on the
server
Post by Hii Sing ChungPost by swdev2Post by Hii Sing ChungPost by swdev2from
Post by Hii Sing ChungFoxPro (in order to solve the security issue)? Is it recommeded to ODBC
from
Post by Hii Sing ChungFoxpro to SQL server express database?
Recommendations highly appreciated.