This is a (partial) reply to the original question on how well VFP 9 Apps work
in Windows 10.
Short answer: very well, but some of that may because I have taken great pains
to minimize my
exposure to the extraneous complexity beloved of Microsoft.
I've been in the Preview program since October (on my laptop) and have never
had a VFP
app malfunction or crash. However, I only use the laptop for demos, and most
of the time I'm
not demoing VFP, so that's a very small sample. But still, VFP runs as well in
10 as does any other
Windows program.
On Sunday, I think, I bit the bullet and "Upgraded" my Win 8.1 to Win 10 (this
is on a Mac, in
a Parallels virtual machine). This is NOT the laptop, this is my main machine
running both OS X
and Windows in roughly equal proportions. My main financial system is a
Billing/CashFlow system
originally built in VFP for my consulting firm, which was originally in FP DOS
and currently in
VFP9 SP1 (I didn't need any of the Report extensions in SP2). It worked
without a hitch in Win 7,
in Win 8.1, and now in Win 10. No errors, no hangs, no glitches.
Caveat: I do not use anything that has to be Registered, everything is in a
single App directory,
including all the runtimes. I do not use any Active X crap, I do not use the
Report Writer. I do have
a pretty elaborate Error Logging system, but it hasn't had any work for a long
time. It's a fairly
sophisticated IDE app, with a fairly fancy system of generating grids on
demand. It all still works.
Example B: I made a Directory Map program that lets you pick a Root Folder
(D:\, or Documents,
or Whatever), does a complete tree-walk, and prints a fair-sized summary of the
number of Folders,
Files, and Megabytes at each level within it. A variation starts from the
Start Menu and inventories
the "All Applications" list. To my amazement, this one works also.
So may I'm too old and conservative to get into the kinds of trouble I should
be, but VFP on Windows 10
is a no-problem for me.
Hope this helps
Dan Covill
San Diego
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