Hi Metin:

The error reported has to do that you need the VFP Runtime in the same directory of your app. Just put the vfp.runtime.dll and other needed assemblies in the same directory of your compiled exe. By the way the Online Compiler is really old (May 2007), we want to update that but we need to remove the preprocessor support from the compiler because of security reasons, and that is somewhat tricky.

We are working with the target to achieve 100% compatibility and to the moment it looks pretty possible. With regards to compatibility, you should not have any need to change your code. Recently we added support for 4 letter abbrevs, and it allowed us to recompile a FoxPro library containing several thousand lines without changes. In fact almost all errors you get when recompiling your code are usually related to Missing Commands or Functions not implemented yet.

We have recompiled and ran forms under VFP and under .NET side by side and they look so alike and works the same, that sometimes I confuse myself with what environment I'm running on ;-). Markus Winhard in his Session notes for DevCon Germany show that in translated automatically from German and here in the original German Text

The compiler / runtime can do lots of powerful things like scanning, filtering, locating data, Visual FoxPro Forms, ASP.NET WebForms, ASP.NET Web Services, SQL PassThrough and more. Of course we need to polish the compiler / runtime, but to program in FoxPro and recompile to .NET is so great, that we are building all this in the the FoxPro language itself.




>Hi Samuel,
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>What about compatibility and stability. I just tried that sample:
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>? "Hello .NET From Fox"
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>and got runtime error:
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>Unhandled exception: System.IO.FileNotFoundException: Could not load file or assembly 'vfp.runtime, .....
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>>Hi Scott:
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>>We expect to achieve that level 95% in the next 6 months. Sounds hard to believe that?, look at the remaining bits, those are the easier parts, the hard part (GUI, TableLayer, Data Access, SQL Passthrough, Classes, Visual Inheritance, OOP Model) are already done.