Be brilliant if anything along those lines happened. VFP is absolutely the best RDDBMS around.
Laurie On 27 November 2015 at 20:07, Bill Arnold <[email protected] > wrote: > > Took a look at the video and yeah, MS is definitely headed in a better > direction. Open source and, it seems, more interest in making developers > happy by including more languages in VS > > But what about VFP? It hurt to listen to him brag about the growing list of > languages supported by Visual Studio and not mention FoxPro. If Pascal and > PHP got on the list, then surely something could be provided for FoxPro. Is > it that MS not only decided not to create VFP10, but also to hold VFP'ers > head under water to force a conversion nobody wanted or needed? Not > building > version 10 was one thing, but harming the salability of FoxPro products is > quite another. Adding FoxPro as a supported language to their list of > languages would go a long way to supporting existing VFP apps in the > marketplace - while continuing to omit it only makes FoxPro appear worse. > It's MS's own strategy that brings this to the table because by presenting > VS with a long list of supported languages begs for the list to include > FoxPro > > I can still hear the thunder of BG announcing that anyone in a meeting who > brought up FoxPro would be fired. Seems that set an MS attitude that > remains > in force to this day. Is there someone else in MS who can re-think the > company's position on getting FoxPro into VS? > > There isn't a single reason why MS can't do *something* to help us bring > our > applications forward. Bringing FoxPro into Visual Studio, even with minimal > support (other languages mentioned don't use the CLR) at first, would be a > good thing. And, consistent with the open source attitude, maybe it's a > good > time to make the ProFox source code available to a group willing to further > the effort. > > How can MS expect to woo developers by saying how much they care about > them, > while at the same time demonstrating a very different attitude with FoxPro? > > I'd like to post something like the following to the article, but thought > I'd run it past the list first because it starts with "we FoxPro developers > ...", > > "We FoxPro developers see here an opportunity for MS to settle its account > with the thousands of FoxPro developers the company harmed by discontinuing > FoxPro development. By revisiting the company's position on FoxPro and > bringing it into the Visual Study fold they will show developers they are > as > loyal to developers as they want developers to be to them. The new MS tilt > towards open source and their obvious huge interest in developer mindshare > is also an opportunity for the company to right a wrong that will be heard > around the dev world" > > Bill > > > Fellow Fox Gang, > For once I am actually "enthusiasti"c about something that M$ has released > and the direction they have taken. No longer is Open Source a dirty word at > M$ and they also have encompassed OSX and Linux - previously the dreaded > "Enemy". > > Take a look at this and it may bring a few wry smiles to your battle worn > faces when you look back at how intransigent M$ were in the past. If this > thought technology had been there a few years ago then maybe VFP would > still > be a thriving product. > > Maybe, just maybe there is an opportunity to resurrect VFP in some shape or > form using the "Visual Studio Code" in the video below. If they can do it > for Pascal etc. (See video) then they can do it for (as they say) Any > Language. I may well take a poke around over the weekend and see. Why not > take a look and make your own judgements. > > https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Visual-Studio/Connect-event-2015/010 > > Dave > > [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/camvtr9ejgv9t4gquuubxlo4y+m_3sc_s7rbxgsk7nuumksv...@mail.gmail.com ** 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.
