Hi Thomas:

We would have to revisit the VCX / SCX format, because some features as namespaces, return types, typed properties, are not possible with the current format, so some extensions will be needed. Actually, You can't even implement interfaces in classes based on VCXs, so this is a blocking issue for current VFP functionality not to mention .NET functionality.

We already have a partial implementation of CursorAdapter, for remote views. We can query, update, delete and insert into remote views. Thanks to our customers we have tested in MySQL, Oracle 8i, Oracle 10g, SQL Server 2005 and PostgreSQL 8.x. You can execute remote procedures receive ResultSets and work like VFP.

The Async functionality had not been enabled because until this month we enabled multithreading in VFP even with LOCAL vars. So with the async capability in place we are going to finish the bits for Asynchronous data retrieving. And to have Multithreading in VFP now enable us to do very interesting things We always wished to do in VFP but were blocked because the VFPxR.dll were Single Threaded.

For views based on local tables , we expect in march to have the SQL functionality in place to allow this to work with local tables, and then CursorAdapter will be mostly feature complete.



>>>> But this probably maps into an _environmentvar, or how do you set it for compile
>>>> classlib ?
>>Actually we already implemented the COMPILE command and we added some keywords as REFERENCES "SomeAssembly". We could add a few more keywords as WARN_UNDECLARED [0 | 1 | 2}.
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>>But if you check this, it should go to the file level something like in C++ where you can put some switches at the file level. VFP already supports some data in the file level as the CODEPAGE info for prgs. So it could go there.
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>For prg's this sounds good, but for vcx/scx I'd go down to the class/record level and create some hints in the user memo field - but you probably thought of this already.
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>Any estimates on when sql is advanced enough to allow cursoradapter to be implemented ?
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>regards
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>thomas