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We are the creators of .NET Extender for VFP and VFPCompiler for .NET. Two products targeted to you the Visual FoxPro Programmer, which enable you to integrate Visual FoxPro with the .NET Framework.

Find out more about these two powerful solutions:

  • .NET Extender for VFP. Basically turns the whole .NET Framework into a Visual FoxPro Extension. Several included samples show you how you can have all the power of the .NET Framework in the powerful app you already know: Visual FoxPro.
  • VFPCompiler for .NET. This Next Generation compiler, actually in beta stage, lets you program to the .NET Framework in Visual Foxpro Code and create pure IL, .NET Assemblies, which run natively in the .NET Framework

Update for March 2008

You can read the March news letter to get all the exciting details about the new functionality available. This update expands the ASP.NET abilities introduced in the November Update. With the new functionality Visual FoxPro is now the best language for dealing with Data in ASP.NET

These are the major improvements

  1. ASP.NET. Significantly improved functionality including new Web Site project type, Ajax funcitonality for your WebPages, JSON WebServices and general WebServices.
  2. A new Simple Page Editor, let you code WebPages inside VFP and then it exports them to ASPX pages for .NET. You have WysIWyg HTML Editing, Simple Tag Completion and Syntax highlighting. And of course all this inside is Visual FoxPro code.
  3. Multithreading support even for local variables. The TableLayer64 and the runtime has been improved to deal with Multithreaded code. This is very important for ASP.NET apps that are multithreaded in nature.
  4. Database Support several new commands related to Databases are available.
  5. Automatic ORM from Tables to Objects. Now we compile your Databases and Tables to .NET and enable several exciting scenarios. Including Compile time checking that your database dealing code is ok.
  6. CALCULATE and related functions implemented and now you can define your own aggregatable functions.
  7. SCATTER / GAHER also implemented
  8. Run "!" button in the .NET Extender Toolbar give you one click access to run your prg under .NET. This is simply easier than the way in .NET things are done.
  9. SQL Passthrough improved with the ability to call stored procedures returning RecordSets and tested with SQL Server, PostgreSQL, Oracle 8i and 10g (thanks to D.P.) and MySQL 5.x (thanks to J.D.)
  10. More commands and functions.
  11. Several new samples and walkthroughs for the new funcitonality.

Updates November II

We were in DevCon Germany and We were the most attended session!. Thanks to Markus Winhard for working so hard to make such a great presentations. His sessions were really great! and he has allowed us to post here his notes and presentations so check soon to see them translated to English. His work is so great that looks like a Technical Manual so it is really a must read.

There is a new update available. Our November NewsLetter gives you the juicy details about what is debuting in the compiler:

  • ASP.NET you can code ASP.NET pages in Visual Foxpro language!
  • C# and VB.NET language conversion to Visual Foxpro
  • Data Session support
  • & Macro support now available!
  • SQL Passthrough
  • CursorAdapter is debuting
  • Generalizated tables
  • Generalizated Indexes
  • Visual Foxpro forms enhancements including Data Environment functionality for automatically opening your tables.
  • Table 64 Layer enhancements

 

Updates November I

We have great news to share this month.

  1. We are debuting a new great site built by the Smart and Creative people of Design Und Development. Big thanks to Deborah and Michael Bickel for bringing us such a nice site, They really love VFP as shown by the great effort put into this site and the really nice touches seen every where here.
  2. We'll be featured in DevCon Germany. Markus Winhard will give sessions about .NET Extender and the .NET Compiler for VFP. He will be showing cool stuff debuting into the compiler this month so be sure to check his sessions.
  3. VFP with our .NET Compiler beat the competition. In a recent contest ran by the German Magazine DotNet Pro the solution using VFP ran faster than all the others contenders, beating SQL Server, SQLite, Access and others.. Markus Winhard, the smart guy behind this has all the details here. It is in German a translation will appear soon in our site. In the meantime you can check an automatic translation by Google here.

What is amazing is that we ran faster than the others even when:

  • We used the disk for all the work. Other contesters ran most ot the hard work in pure memory. If we had done this in memory we'll have outperformed even more the competition.
  • The other winning solutions all skipped using ADO.NET DataTables, as they are really slow. We used the great Table Layer of VFP.
  • Really smart people participated in this contest as shown by the Algorithms used to check for duplicates. To run faster that those great programs means a lot to us because we were in Alpha at that time

Updates October

Now the compiler can compile very complex forms with no change at all. It is really great to have all the power of VFP forms as Visual Inheritance, powerful extensibility and Object model in .NET.

Check other updates in early october here.

Updates September

Now Visual Foxpro Forms and Controls compilable to .NET as shown below. Check our September Newsletter for details about this update release.

 

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