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VFP 6.0 Don't seem to be what we were waiting for
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26/05/1998 22:26:34
 
 
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26/05/1998 20:55:06
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Visual FoxPro
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Conferences & events
Miscellaneous
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00100091
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>>Well, I just finished reading the article on VFP 6 in this month's FoxPro Advisor. Perhaps the article focussed mainly on things of interest to the author, I don't know, but if that's all there is, I certainly feel very down indeed.
>
>It's not so much "where do you want to go today", I think this release is taking us where Microsoft wants us to go:
>Multi-tier and client-server applications.
>Web enabled applications (STRTOFILE and FILETOSTR, plus enhanced string concatenation, JPEG image support)
>Using COM to produce middle-tier components.
>New _Access and _Assign methods will change OO design implementations.
>
>
>All of which is of little interest to the solo consultant whose business is desktop and LAN applications.
>But then those people are probably happy with VFP 5.0, apart from the non-object menus and reports.

PAul -

Don't forget IntelliSense (TM) functions (ie VB5.0).

- George [Oh, and making Web applications *easy* to write.]
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