>Thanks for the post, Jos! What is the learning curve like for Wlanguage, and can you use vfp tables?

I think the learning curve for WLanguage, if you come from VFP, is the flattest you will find for any language, bar none. If you can read/write VFP - you will instantly understand WLanguage and know they come from the same root concept. I did a long series of posts back in 2014 in this thread ID: 1563218 - you can see some stuff there with screenshots, etc. Sorry, I don't know how to hyperlink the thread ID ?

iro VFP tables - the support is there for accessing DBF, CDX directly, FPT requires the VFP OBDC driver. It is possible to read all info from them. There are 2 gotchas with DBF's - one is that CDX index support is not perfect - there was an issue with it which I cant remember just now, will have to check my notes. And the other issue was the FPT memo fields required ODBC. And that in turn means if you need to read FPT via VFP ODBC driver then you cannot compile your WinDev app into 64 bits since the driver is 32bit only.

PCSoft will not update xBase database access anymore - they say there is no demand for it from their side. As far as they are concerned DBF is yesterday's problem. WinDev however can connect to virtually any database, Oracle, SQL, MySQL, PostgreSQL, etc. and also offers its own free Hyperfile database.

In addition, WinDev can convert your DBF file structures into its own Hyperfile database structures. Hyperfile is as fast as VFP Rushmore databases plus can be used in either direct access mode (like VFP) or in Client-Server mode - same database can be used either way, just need to set up the access method before accessing the files. Not tried myself but other WinDev gurus have explained it in the forums.