Visual FoxPro (hereinafter referred to as VFP) is a growing guy, and VSUAL Studio (hereinafter referred to as VS) care, the VFP has always been the same in the same tool language in the developer's mind, but it is not a general development tool. It is just focusing on the development of database applications.
However, VS.NET, hanging foot, finally appeared in front of the developer, did not see the vfp's figure, and truthfully caused a champion of the development community. Microsoft does not want VFP? No, in contrast, VFP can't stand the slow upgrade speed of VS, "single". The current VFP has been upgraded to version 9 and fully supports .NET technology.
Let's take a look at the road of VFP to look at the road of VFP, and you will bring us attractive new features every time you upgrade VFP. Of course, we only sorted the version after VFP 6.0, that is, VFP 7, 8, 9. These contents come from MSDN Library Online, we only refer to the "What's New" section in each version VFP product documentation.
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N Web Services Support VFP 7 supports registration and release of Web Services without having to use Microsoft SOAP Toolkit and VFP extensions to complete these tasks from the underlying;
n Server Enhancement VFP 7 has a large level of enhancement for COM servers, and can interoperate with core platforms such as COM services;
N xml supports the Trend of the data on the Web in the Web in XML, and VFP 7 provides some functions for conversion between XML data and FoxPro cursor (CURSOR) or table.
N Divex XBase Features VFP adds a lot of new or improved XBase features, and these features are written in VFP languages;
N OLE DB Provider The developer can call VFP data in any OLE DB program and language in any OLE DB Provider interface.
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n Data Features Enhanced VFP 8 improves its data characteristics, and adds a lot of new data characteristics, including: remote data connection, create DataEnvironment classes, automatic growth domain values, support comparison, and SQL statements SELECT ... Union Implicit data conversion, use the SQL SELECT command insertion, etc .;
N Other Enhanced VFP 8 has improved some tools, sample databases, and solution cases.
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n Data and XML Enhanced VFP in this period has enhanced its data characteristics. It is really dazzling, and the details can be referred to here, and will not be described here;
n Implement SQL Language VFP 9 has been able to fully support SQL query language;
N Designer Enhanced VFP 9 Enhances these designers: reports and label designers, menu designers, table designers, queries, and view designers, data environment designers, and form designers;
n Other enhancements and VFP 8, VFP 9 has made a lot of improvements in other miniatures, making the developer's experience more comfortable.
Of course, the above mentioned is just the new feature of the new feature that is updated every time the version is updated, and the IDE is not mentioned (in the VFP is Interactive Development Environment) and the language enhancement, this is the version update. It has improved and it is greatly improved. I believe that only the hardware Foxer can get it. Although the improvements listed here look very little, but in the MSDN Library Online, it takes up a huge space, interested friends may wish to browse on the MSDN, you can deeply understand why VFP will not die, but also Thrive. Of course, the above mentioned is just the new feature of the new feature that is updated every time the version is updated, and the IDE is not mentioned (in the VFP is Interactive Development Environment) and the language enhancement, this is the version update. It has improved and it is greatly improved. I believe that only the hardware Foxer can get it. Although the improvements listed here look very little, but in the MSDN Library Online, it takes up a huge space, interested friends may wish to browse on the MSDN, you can deeply understand why VFP will not die, but also Thrive.
