Christof, I'm totally impressed with your goal, what you've done so far, and truly hope you see it through to completion. Looks to me like you've found a way where one person can really make a difference, and I presume/hope you will be handsomely rewarded for the effort.
It would be great if one or more of MS's VFP developers were to join forces with you. Bill > Guineu is a FoxPro runtime. It works more or less the same > way that VFP9R.DLL does, except that it is written in C# and > therefore usable on all .NET platforms. The current release > can create mobile applications for PDAs and SmartPhones, > Windows applications, Linux applications, ActiveX controls, > managed .NET libraries and SQL Server 2005 stored procedures. > Guineu runs on 32 and 64 bit Windows natively, as well as on > Linux and Windows Mobile. It should support the Mac as well, > but I can't test that. The scope of platforms and targets is > clearly beyond what VFP can do today, but the language is > still VFP. You use the VFP environment to create Guineu > applications. All Guineu applications compile without errors > in VFP, so you can use VERSION() to branch on features that > are only available in Guineu, such as Unicode support. Guineu > targets the VFP developer who basically wants to remain a VFP > developer, but needs new platforms (especially the > PDA) and the confidence that their application will continue > to work on new versions of Windows (beyond Vista) after 2015. > > You could see it from a different perspective, as well. With > VFP 7 there was the dicussion wether VFP should remain in > VS.NET or be an external application. VFP.NET compiler is > what VFP evtually would have become if it remained in .NET > (that is a managed language with native database support), > whereas Guineu is what Microsoft would have needed to do in > VFP 10 if they hadn't discontinued the product (that is, > support of .NET platforms). > > Of course, that's just my personal, biased view on the two > approaches. > > -- > Christof > _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://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.
