McStyles Software looks to a long future with Visual FoxPro development.
Database software is an important niche to Microsoft, which is why Microsoft
made the initial purchase of Fox Software back in 1992.
Some of the best technologies from FoxPro have been incorporated into the
many languages and tools written by Microsoft Corporation. ADO was based on
FoxPro's Rushmore technology. FoxPro was one of the first languages to be
updated to include important OOP features such as inheritance. Visual Basic has
recently been updated to also include inheritance.
Visual FoxPro includes support for XML standards,
such as SOAP and WSDL. This makes it easy to create .NET Web services that take
full advantage of the incredibly fast data handling technologies that are still
unique to Visual FoxPro.
Large, robust applications have been created using
Visual FoxPro. One of the most important projects over the years is
the Joint Flow and Analysis
System for Transportation (JFAST), written for the military. JFAST is
a client-server application designed to run on one or more WindowsNT
workstations--a JFAST simulation can run on a single workstation or be
distributed over several peer workstations, and was developed using Microsoft's
Visual Studio; Visual FoxPro for application development; Visual C++ for
ActiveX controls; and Microsoft C for performance-critical Dynamic Link
Libraries (.DLLs).
Your application software can use the same
techniques for speed and versatility!
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Tuesday, 07 November 2006
