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Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
Other
Environment versions
Visual FoxPro:
VFP 9 SP1
OS:
Windows 7
Database:
Visual FoxPro
Application:
Desktop
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
01561746
Message ID:
01561754
Views:
189
>Hi All,
>
>A large Corporate Client of mine was prepared to update a VFP 9 App until they went on Microsoft's VFP Main page: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vfoxpro/bb190225.aspx and got scared by the statement:
>
>"Note that Visual FoxPro 9.0 is the last version and was published in 2007. For a great solution for building modern business applications, take a look at LightSwitch in Visual Studio 2012"
>
>which they interpreted this as "Microsoft is telling us to use another product."
>
>So we have another case of FUD - Fear, Uncertainy Doubt..So I have to reassure them..
>
>Any articles around to make the business case for VFP?
>
>BTW, Already own the wonderful Henztenwerke Book: The Business Case for Moving (Some) Business Applications to VFP in 2013 - Highly Recommended

Your advice to them should be to find an alternative to VFP., VFP is dead and continuing to use it doesn't make any sense from a business perspective. Rewrite their app in C#/SQL.
Everything makes sense in someone's mind
public class SystemCrasher :ICrashable
In addition, an integer field is not for irrational people
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