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15/11/2008 11:50:25
Victor Chigne
Inteliventas
Peru
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Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
VFP Compiler for .NET
Environment versions
Visual FoxPro:
VFP 9 SP2
OS:
Vista
Network:
Windows 2008 Server
Database:
MS SQL Server
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Thread ID:
01362083
Message ID:
01362087
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>Hello.
>
>I´ve been looking at VFP Compiler for NET. Realistically, you may expect to be at 95% VFP compatibily in a couple years. This way, you may end rewriting 10% of your code to update your current VFP projects to .NET instead of the .NET learning curve plus rewriting of projects. Still worthy the wait, specially if you have a big codebase with lots of customers. Also you may expect to extend your codebase in those 2 years to come without the fear of having to rewrite the entire thing in another language.
>
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>I've been thinking in ways to finance the entire thing, maybe evangelizing it more, looking for seed capital, angel investors, and so on. The more money is in etecnologia, the faster and better the results. Any coment?
>

I don't know much of anything about Etecnologia, so take this with a grain of salt, but I seriously question that estimate of only having to rewrite 10% of an existing VFP app. MSIL code generated by Etecnologia will have to comply with the Common Language Specification (CLS) and that is dramatically different from VFP. Data types are different, arrays are different (1 based instead of 0 based), all the VFP data handling commands are out the window, etc. etc. etc. Maybe Etechnologia is going to include some type of code converter to make VFP code compliant in an automated way, I don't know. It just seems like a pipe dream to think it will be possible to deploy a VFP-flavored .NET application without understanding .NET. And that's the hard part of the learning curve.
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