Hi Des,

My day job and my own consulting business are both making the switch to Lianja.

Not because our apps don't run on Win7 or 8 (we don't run into SMB problems because we are hitting SQL Server).

The reason we are switching is that I plan to work for about 15 more years. Lianja lets us move over our business code with very few changes. That's huge in an application that has 700 tables.

The interface style is new, and takes some learning. This is necessary for web browser and mobile apps. Moving your app "as is" is not practical, for reasons that make a lot of sense when you get an understanding of how Lianja works.

The best part is that we don't have to take the time to become experts in bootstrap, jQuery, etc., as it's all built in and "just. works." You can add and create using those tools within Lianja as you want. All of Lianja is CSS Themable.

The most awaited function, going into beta next week, is the ability to use Virtual Tables (think: remote views in VFP) in the browser/web client.

The current release version has all the files needed to build PhoneGap/Cordova builds. A future release will package it all up for use by Adobe's Build service, which means you won't need to set up the complex environments (Java and Objective-C, respectively) to build apps that run as apps on Android and iOS). The current files are all you need, so the automated package and push is just to make life easier for developers. Lianja has, as VFP had, a commitment to meeting developers' needs.

Native iOS and Android apps will appear in 2015, it appears. These apps will run LianjaVFP code in the mobile apps themselves. The browser apps (including PhoneGap) use Javascript in the client (with many VFP functions availalble in Lianja), and VFP or Javascript (or PHP or Python, in 3 releases from now) on the backend (the app server).

hth,

Hank

Disclaimer: Lianja MVP





>Hi Guys.
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>Please excuse me as I am brand new to this place. Don't really know how it works just yet, but I'll play around for a while and try to get used to it.
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>I am a software developer here in Ireland for nearly 30 years and have been programming in VFP for as long as it existed, working my way up to VFP9. But now with the change over to Windows 7 and Windows 8, I am experiencing problems. My forms seem to hang, especially when filtering data in large tables. So I am considering updating the VFP platform and have read about Lianja.
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>Is Lianja a viable option for me. I am old school and dread having to learn a new language.
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>Any advice welcome.
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>Cheers
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>Des.