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From: Markus Feser on 22 Mar 2007 09:49
> However, neither FoxPro nor VO will be too important in a few years - both
> have become a n�che product with a small market, and this is sad.
>
> Any suggestions what I should learn next? C#? .NET? What database?

Turan,

..NET is the platform (runtime) for languages like Vulcan or C#

language: Vulcan and C#
database: SQLServer (SQL)

maybe, there will be a transporter from FoxPro to Vulcan for a smart
change to .NET

with .NET you are not fixed to one language, because most of the language
is part of the Framework - The general datatypes in every langage are the
same (also part of the Framework). That makes things a lot of easier.

In the future the language will not play such a major role as in the past
and that are the good news from .NET

--
Markus Feser

From: hpeter on 22 Mar 2007 11:34
> That was last weeks news.
>
>>Might be a good idea for you old VO diehards too - move VO to
>>open source

Visual FoxPro is not going open source 100%, only certain features.
See original microsoft announcement on March 13:

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/vfoxpro/bb308952
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/vfoxpro/bb264582
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/vfoxpro/bb190293.aspx

The open code released under SEDNA is only extended functionality of
VFP. The interesting aspect of SEDNA is that they will release in
summer an option/open code "to access VFP DATA withing Visual Studio"
which is the equivalent of VulcanDB (accessing dbf files
inside .NET.). Other than that only some "class browser" and
"samples" are posted in SEDNA codeplex (http://www.codeplex.com/).

>From microsoft:
"Features in Sedna will target Visual FoxPro interoperability with
application components created using Visual Studio 2005, the .NET
Framework 2.0 and SQL Server 2005. Sedna will also help improve the
ability for Visual FoxPro 9.0 solutions to be successfully deployed on
Windows Vista. Sedna is planned to be released before the end of
Summer of 2007"

In order words, MS is not given away Visual Fox Pro.

Hernando

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