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.NET front end, VFP back end
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19/04/2007 14:56:50
Joel Leach
Memorial Business Systems, Inc.
Tennessee, United States
 
 
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Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
Visual FoxPro and .NET
Environment versions
Visual FoxPro:
VFP 9 SP1
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
01217638
Message ID:
01217994
Views:
14
Hi Kevin,

You're talking about the OleDB provider, right? Have you tried the DDEX provider? My understanding is that it will fix the problems with VS.NET, or rather provide enough information for the .NET tools/builders to work.

>Alejandro,
>
>I had to do this a little while back (use the VFP provider) - it was a royal pain, and I was not happy with the results and the workarounds I had to do.
>
>As firmly as I can possibly say this....
>
>DO NOT DO THIS!!!!!
>
>This is not a fox-bashing post, as I think VFP9 is a great product for use with other back-ends. But the provider for VFP9 is just not a prime-time-player. If you only needed to use it for a few query/batch jobs, I'd say maybe...but for an application, no way. So don't do it.
Joel Leach
Microsoft Certified Professional
Blog: http://www.joelleach.net
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