Hi Kurt,
Sorry for not responding earlier. But here goes. I am a X# user. Yes
be careful of them using the interview as cheap "consultation"...
On 2019/03/20 07:45, Kurt at VR-FX wrote:
So as some of you may already know, I had a first interview for a
programmer job at UCLA. The second interview is coming up.
They did not bring up things like Lianja, XoJo, or X# the open source
X-base language.
There was also some recent discussion on X# which looked like a
potentially great option. But, I heard that via the last posting - the
FoxPro version of the code wasn't really ready yet!
FoxPro experts are already working behind the scene in a project I
initiated after identifying Fox developers I believe is suitable to
demystify the VFP IDE repo and reproduce it in a X# readable text
format. From this format we busy to recreate it with a VFPTransporter,
similar to the VOTransporter that was created to move Visual Objects
code to X#, into a Visual Studio solution and XIDE repo. We think it
might be possible to convert the Fox Screen designer straight into a
WinForm, Menu to MenuStrip, etc. Fox command translations will be a
combination of the X# DevTeam adding support for these unrecognized
commands in X#, #commands in a (VFP.xh) for the X# pre-proccessor to
translate, or hard code Translaters in the Transporter for difficult
pieces of VFP code. We quite excited, VFP users assisting and I, as part
of this community initiative joint venture between VFP and X#, probably
a first in the XBase world. We hope to have something ready that can be
demonstrated at the French Fox conference atoutfox in May and progress
at Fox conferences later in the year. If we achieve the goal, you
obviously need to learn the .NET way of doing stuff and get an
understanding of the X# syntax to open up the world of .NET consumption,
it is huge. Any code written in a .NET language you can use as if
written in X#. Have a class in a c#/VB.NET assembly, no sweat just add
a reference and use it. Want to add new features to this class just
create a new class inheriting from the c# class. Done, use it in your code.
Watch this space!
Johan Nel
Friend of X# (FOX) member.
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