Hi Lennert:

Good things are happening. We have worked a lot in the GUI classes, so now your VFP controls are .NET Controls! This means you can embed your good old VFP Container / Control into Winforms and by extension Windows Presentation Foundation Apps. So your apps are now .NET apps.

And of course your VFP Forms now can be run in .NET apps and mixed with Winforms. So you keep all the powerful OOP model of VFP Forms and yet you can enable other .NET programmers to use your code.

In the Data front we have implemented APPEND FROM, INSERT INTO, CREATE TABLE (field definitions), also more functions and commands like READ EVENTS, CLEAR EVENTS. Now DateTime types are implemented and the memo functionality is working better.

We have speed up the Data access layer so now it is closer to VFP, and now it looks pretty possible to outperform VFP speed. We will publish a Sample based in the DotNet contest showing our performance very close to the one of VFP, and we are just starting the optimizations game!.

The compiler now supports #DEFINE, #IF and more, so more VFP code is compilable.

Finally with the new GUI functionality in place we are enabling the compiler to be called inside VFP to compile your old PJX project files to .NET (exes or dlls). So in the next revision of the compiler you should not have any need to use the ugly command line to compile your code instead your good VFP will be .NET enabled to produce pure .NET assemblies. This is just the beginning of VFP / .NET Integration.

An update is planned for the next two weeks, to showcase this new functionality. As an appetizer we'll put a few ScreenCasts / ScreenShots this weekend to show our progress.

Thanks,

Samuel David



>I wonder whether you could give us an update on how the compiler is evolving?
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>TIA, and keep up the good work!
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>Lennert