Many thanks for your reply - I'm sure you've been travelling the world to all the devcons, enjoying the night life, etc...

Unfortunately, in the meantime I have to say that Visual Foxpro is no more. The FoxPro developers have moved department and it looks likely that we will moving over to VB + Oracle. The reason being that the other developers are familier with this environment.

If you do come across any information, please do not hesitate in forwarding it to me as I'm sure that I will be able to make use of it the future.


Jason

>>Any information you could bring to my attention would be gratefully received.
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>>Jason Cresswell
>>Spirax Sarco
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>Jason,
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>Sorry I've not replied! I've been away from UT for a while.
>Just got back in today (my ID and Password seemed not to be recognised).
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>I know it's going to take a while to think on this and get all the information together.
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>However, there is one article I remember from FoxPro Advisor - on the Channel Tunnel database. Gigabytes of information in FoxPro by particioning the tables, a HUGE application.
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>The "Microsoft way" would be to create the application as a Web application with HTML or DHTL pages accessing the data. Either through a VFP server process or through the new Data Access technology.
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>It's all been brought under the "Windows DNA" acronym, though not much of it is new, it's just all been renamed and claimed to work together <g>
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>VFP 6 or VFP 98, whatever "Tahoe" will be called, works with Microsoft Transaction Server to produce middle-tier objects for data access.
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>I know that Visual Development Studio has signed up for the 3-2-1 program, a Microsoft initiative to teach solution provider partners how to use the new technology. 3 developers, 2 months, one COM enabled web application.
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>So in about 2 months time we'll have experts trained by Microsoft to do this, but I won't be one of them. I'm still working on VFP-only client projects at present, and while I have an overview of what's going on from a Microsoft seminar, I haven't actually got my hands dirty yet. I know how easy MS says it will be, not where all the pitfalls are :)
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>Paul