>I've been using VFP9 for a few years now and I'm getting ready to work with a team that is still using VFP7. I guess they purchased VFP8 but ran into some problems migrating their projects and decided to return to VFP7.
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>If I can't convince them to upgrade, I'd like to use VFP9 for my tasks and then let them compile the code in VFP7. I know that I can't use any of the new commands...but what other issues should I be aware of if I decide to do this?
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>I started testing the scenario by taking a recent VFP9 project and compiling it in VFP7 but received "Property value is out of bounds" errors with a couple class libraries and I couldn't even open the files in VFP7. The same thing happened when I tried to compile in VFP8.
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>Any help would be appreciated. Thank you.
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>Aaron Jacka


You really shouldn't be running into those issues if you're careful about what you put in your code or classes. I do ALL my development in VFP9, but a large majority of the code is compiled and runs under VFP6 with no problems. Ive been doing this for years (and used VFP7 and 8 the same way). The reason for this is the workstations are too numerous and probably too weak to be worth the effort of upgrading (W98 with 64 to 256MB for the most part).

What specific properties are you running into the "out of bounds"?