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Summary: Not revolutionary, but solid advancements make it Necessary!
Review: A lot of the enhancements to VFP7 are not necessarily noticed by those who don't lift the hood. Yes, the Intellisense is great and the ability to do XML transactions over the web is great, but don't forget about the ability to write/use web services (part of .Net), the fact you can create/run VFP6 apps without recompiling (try that with .Net). You can now do Event Binding to COM/ActiveX objects (3rd party controls), it has strong data typing (oh yes), it can "implement interfaces" like java, it has "database container events", it is OLE DB accessible by other apps (not just ODBC), it uses Installshield for installations, etc.Visual Foxpro extends the VFP legacy of not leaving current developers behind while embracing the best of the newest technologies and wrapping them in the fastest database engine on Earth. I use Visual Basic, C, Java, and Visual Foxpro - VFP allows me to build the most feature-rich, fast applications in the least amount of time which is crucial for any consultant!
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Summary: Not revolutionary, but solid advancements make it Necessary!
Review: A lot of the enhancements to VFP7 are not necessarily noticed by those who don't lift the hood. Yes, the Intellisense is great and the ability to do XML transactions over the web is great, but don't forget about the ability to write/use web services (part of .Net), the fact you can create/run VFP6 apps without recompiling (try that with .Net). You can now do Event Binding to COM/ActiveX objects (3rd party controls), it has strong data typing (oh yes), it can "implement interfaces" like java, it has "database container events", it is OLE DB accessible by other apps (not just ODBC), it uses Installshield for installations, etc. Visual Foxpro extends the VFP legacy of not leaving current developers behind while embracing the best of the newest technologies and wrapping them in the fastest database engine on Earth. I use Visual Basic, C, Java, and Visual Foxpro - VFP allows me to build the most feature-rich, fast applications in the least amount of time which is crucial for any consultant!
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Summary: The most powerful desktop database OOP language available!
Review: Having been an early Beta Tester for VFP7 I must say that I am extremely pleased with its performance and its enhancements from previous versions. An excellent improvement on a very mature and stable OOP database development language, it is well at ease using its native data engine as well as working asa front end or middle tier for any other DBMS, from SQL Server to Oracle to MySQL. It finally brings Intellisense and an OLEDB Provider! Visual FoxPro is the only Microsoft development language that can play in any tier of an N-Tier system. It works well with all the current technologies, MTS, COM, COM+, ADO, XML, ActiveX, etc. Well worth your adding it to your programmer's toolset!
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Summary: Reviews... a sham ?
Review: I "voted" on the reviews, giving a "not helpful" to two of the three. To my surprise, irrespective of my vote they were counted as "helpful... ". I think ole AMAZON has B. Gates running the abacus!
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Summary: Reviews... a sham ?
Review: I "voted" on the reviews, giving a "not helpful" to two of the three. To my surprise, irrespective of my vote they were counted as "helpful... ". I think ole AMAZON has B. Gates running the abacus!
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Summary: VFP 7 - Best Version of FoxPro Yet
Review: I've been developing in the beta version of VFP 7 for the past 6 months, and so far I've had a great experience with it. Even in beta I've found the product to be robust and reliable. In VFP 7 it even easier to develop applications due to it many new features such as intellisense (you start a command, and the program provides the possible options to finish it). I'm to the point where I feel a bit too contrained when I have to go back and use VFP 6.0 for code maintenance purposes. I know I can't wait for the final release of version 7 -- I'll be first in line to purchase.
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Summary: VFP 7 - Best Version of FoxPro Yet
Review: I've been developing in the beta version of VFP 7 for the past 6 months, and so far I've had a great experience with it. Even in beta I've found the product to be robust and reliable. In VFP 7 it even easier to develop applications due to it many new features such as intellisense (you start a command, and the program provides the possible options to finish it). I'm to the point where I feel a bit too contrained when I have to go back and use VFP 6.0 for code maintenance purposes. I know I can't wait for the final release of version 7 -- I'll be first in line to purchase.
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Summary: Not Necessarily the Best Version Yet
Review: The vest version yet??? Bull Hockey!!! This product has been generally available for less than a month. How could anyone know whether it is the "Best Version Yet". Some people just get carried away, or maybe they work for Microsoft. Visual FoxPro is a powerful, flexible, and robust language for developing data base applications. Far superior to its competition. .... But this upgrade is little more than an enhanced maintenance release. There are an even dozen useful language improvements -- most of which should have been incorporated into the language years ago. There are some new development interface features that may aid development speed. Most of these (i.e. IntelliSense) have been available for years from third parties -- usually free. This release falls far short of a major upgrade to the language. Bill Gates must need the money. I would wait for Version 8.0 if I had the choice.
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Summary: Not Necessarily the Best Version Yet
Review: The vest version yet??? Bull Hockey!!! This product has been generally available for less than a month. How could anyone know whether it is the "Best Version Yet". Some people just get carried away, or maybe they work for Microsoft. Visual FoxPro is a powerful, flexible, and robust language for developing data base applications. Far superior to its competition. .... But this upgrade is little more than an enhanced maintenance release. There are an even dozen useful language improvements -- most of which should have been incorporated into the language years ago. There are some new development interface features that may aid development speed. Most of these (i.e. IntelliSense) have been available for years from third parties -- usually free. This release falls far short of a major upgrade to the language. Bill Gates must need the money. I would wait for Version 8.0 if I had the choice.
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Summary: The best Vfox even today...
Review: This version of Vfox is the best one before today. Not only the Intellisence, but all the new resources are fantastics. So simple like CURSORRW in select or so complex like advanced object this version is the best of all !!!!!!!
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