September 1st, 2007
Continuing Development in Visual FoxPro
I am still doing new development work in Visual FoxPro, although at this point all new development has an eye toward changes on the UI side of the equation. While the data files will remain accessible for many years to come, it is likely that the actual application development tool will not stay usable a long time past the planned obsolescence announced by Microsoft.
All but the oldest and most stubborn programmers of VFP applications know other languages as well and keep themselves ready for work in multiple areas. It is only wise to keep options open, whether you are writing in VFP or VB or C# or whatever. At present, a lot of my work is now written in PHP and MySQL. These tools are generally supported on all web hosts. It only makes sense to use the most widely available, reasonably priced, and portable tools.
