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XSharp the new VFP-syntax support on dotnet
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Visual FoxPro
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Visual FoxPro and .NET
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Goedemorgen Koen,

>I am afraid you still have to wait a little before XSharp is fully compatible to run in your environment.

Thanks for the feedback. But since neither Robert van der Hulst - another dutch guy :-) - nor any of the Xsharp team is present on this forum I was wondering if any of the SWFox 2019 attendees could and would feedback. Alas no answer is one. And since there is little feedback here on the training run by Robert in Arizona, I expect the answer is not really encouraging at this stage. There will possibly be limited interest into Xsharp by VFPers. And I assume that Xsharp for VFP-syntax is clearly still quit green anyway.

>-Under which VFP-version is your actual app built?
VFP9.

>-Do you have VFPprogramming experience yourselve?
Yep I have some fox/vpf experience - programming it since the foxplus in the mid-80 and hence a decent grasp of the VFP.

>-If not built under an ancient version ( before #7) than what are your problems you encounter?

No problem. I accept that the English of my post may be a bit gallic:-) I have not been clear enough: the issue of this post is not about VFP itself, or a specific app but on how a VFPer can expect to replicate part of its abilities in Xsharp.

VFP is just a dying environment and I have definitely considered Guido van Rossum (dutch ++) python - which I have been using since the late 90s. It has proved to be so consistent in spite of the relative vagaries for GUI dev. I am currently on the local app side. But as I said, I am just wondering if there is any reasonable chance that Xsharp becomes a decent "cross-over solution" for VFPers.

I am much more of dynamic-language guy (smalltalk, foxpro, python and others...). But yes I could certainly take advantage of a dotnet-and-xbased-based solution if the cognitive cost is worth the time/money and the UI tooling reasonably productive.

Cordialement, Daniel

PS: SORRY GUYS:-) It looks like I need some coffee here. The SWFox 2019 event is on the 24 of October.... I'm a quite a bit EARLY with my question.
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