I never liked wizards, to begin with, because one looses control over 
how things are done, or what was in the mind of the VFP programmer when 
he/she developed the wizard. An example of that is the very intricated 
code you find inside your DBC when you want to apply RI to your tables. 
I never understood how it worked, and in addition, all error messages 
are in English, which is not a language most of my local clients are 
proficient with.

Having said that, I always tried to develop my own "wizards" to do 
things. And in the case of upgrading to sql server I simply developed my 
own two forms. One creates de SQL Server database, tables, constraints 
and indexes, fom the VFP DBC, and the other one rearranges VFP data to 
SQL Server standards and passes the information from the DBF to the SQL 
tables. Works very efficiently, using cursors adapters, and I do not 
need the VFP Ole provider at all.

So Microsoft can deprecate it freely, I can't care less.

Rafael Copquin


El 15/09/2011 18:45, Ted Roche escribió:
> On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 3:38 PM, Lou Syracuse<l...@iconmediadirect.com>  
> wrote:
>
>> We are taking small steps towards getting all our apps to SQ,L which we have 
>> only had a few months.  These little problems will then go away (to be 
>> replaced with newer problems, most likely.  Lol)
> Oh, yeah.
>
> I think you have the experience to present a good argument to
> management that migrating Fox data to SQL Server will be much more
> efficiently done using VFP than the SQL Server import tools. I've done
> this a few times, and using VFP to take the existing data, rearrange
> or clean it to SQL standards, then pushing it to a SQL Server can be a
> very efficient process.
>
>

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