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>This somehow ended up in the wrong category. I'm transferring it over to 'general.'
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>I've got a new 64 bit pc running Windows 7. And an old VFP5 app that I maintained on a 32 bit XP machine
>which died about 6 months ago. (I also have a copy of VFP8 around.)
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>Looking at the chart on Wikipedia, VFP5 seems to be the only version not compatible with Windows 7,
>which is what I'm experiencing trying to rebuild this project after making a form change.
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>Is this chart accurate? I was reading previously that version 9 is the only one that is compatible with Windows 7.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_FoxPro#Operating_system_compatibility>
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>For the past 6 months, I've been able to run/access the app, write and run procedural code, create tables
>and process data from them, etc. as if the software is working fine. I even modified an old report recently.
>However, when I tried to modify a form in the project and rebuild, Windows cancelled the program.
>I tried the compatibilty mode setup. Upon finishing that setup it did say there was a problem although I was
>able to build an executable when I tried it. When I ran the app afterwards, it seemed to run alright but when
>testing the change I'd made it hung a bit (eventually processing). So I don't trust whatever is going on.
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>To maintain the app from this machine, my thought was to set up an alternate boot with XP. Do I need
>a 64 bit version of XP for a 64 bit machine to do this or can I use a 32 bit version? Does it matter?
>Does VFP5 run under an XP 64 bit OS?
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>I'm also wondering about file compatibility transferring the app or any table/project files over to a 32 bit machine
>later. The app runs on 32 bit XP computers at another location. Are there compatibility issues there?
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>Thanks
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>MB
Hi,
I would not worry about VFP5 being capable to work under OS Windows7.
VFP5 is realy, realy a very obsolete system nowadays, as good as it was when brought to the market somuch have we learned since than. Please forget about it. Buy a VFP9 - download the SP2 and the hotfixes and you are ready to rebuilt, dont even try to migrate into VFP9, you will endup with a nice application workable on XP, Win7 and it seems also on Win8
Regards,
Koen
