Hey Mike

As stated on foxite awhile back...

"VFP Studio has not been worked on for over a few months now. Keep in mind that Visual Studio 2010 has significant changes to the designers. There are only two people that ever work/worked on VFP Studio (Bo Durban and myself), so resources have always been very limited. Will VFP Studio be completed? No idea... I haven't even had a chance to completely get my head around the changes that were made in VS 2010 as respect to VSX.

I enjoy working on it and developing with Microsoft's VS Shell. If the mood strikes me I'll work on it."

I dunno if that clears things up or makes it murkier for you Mike. But, it's the truth (abbreviated-version for brevity's sake).

>Hey Craig,
>
>I'm glad to see that you're still hanging out here!! Can you do me a favor and tell me once and for all if the "VFP Studio" project is officially dead?
>
>Your blog does not say anything more about it (or anything lately for that matter). Hope you're keeping well.
>
>Mike
>
>
>>You still looking into this? Sorry I didn't see this message until just now... but yes, I have an FLL that Bo and I wrote some time back that can complete destruct VFP General Fields and get the different pieces of information and payloads (such as a Word doc for instance) that it contains. Let me know if you still need it.
>>
>>>Hi Craig
>>>
>>>I have found this code on the Internet which you wrote to export a general field of type BMP to a BMP file:
>>>
>>>

>>>LOCAL lcFileString
>>>SELECT "MyTable"
>>>COPY TO tmpTable FIELDS YourGeneralField NEXT 1
>>>lcFileString=FILETOSTR("tmpTable.fpt")
>>>ERASE "tmpTable.fpt"
>>>ERASE "tmpTable.dbf"
>>>lcFileString = RIGHT(lcFileString,LEN(lcFileString) - 599)
>>>=STRTOFILE(lcFileString, "MyExport.bmp"
>>>

>>>
>>>That is some interesting code. Do you know or does anyone knows if the same technique could be used to extract a DOC, XLS and PDF to preserve their intact format? Because, when we use the Object.SaveAs() property, in this case a Word file, the file that ends up being saved on the disk is way corrupted.