Virgil, The expression "pushing water uphill" comes to mind and you may well be better off trying that as opposed to what you are proposing.
VFP is dead, not stunned, not slightly concussed, but DEAD. Yes, we all know how good it is, how simple it is to build an integrated Database app from scratch and all the other "nice & warm" things that come with being associated with a friend for over 30 years for some of us, but Microsoft will never, ever open source the product or it's codebase. After all, what do you need or will gain from M$ if they outsource the product that isn't there already in some way by means of VFPX and other add-ons etc. The runtime is free, the platform is stable and it works. What you fail to grasp is that no young new programmer/developer in the world will ever pick VFP as a platform to develop apps on, despite all the complexities of ASP, .Net HTML... etc etc. Give it up, admit defeat and just keep using the old girl for your own pleasure/profit until it no longer cuts the mustard for what you want to write, then retire! I was brought up on Pascal and Algol 60.... far superior languages to C# or in fact any other languages I am fluent in, including VFP... but you don't find many Algol programmers these days. Object Oriented programming hadn't been invented even though we used exactly the same principles and techniques which made it 90's fashionable... but we did it nearly 20 years earlier. Don't fret, C# .Net programmers will probably be fretting and going through the same trauma in 20 years time..... The world moves on. Dave _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
