To all,

In re: ChilkatVFP, I need to release a bug fix version (BinData and StringBuilder don't instantiate) - it's been fixed for a while but had some surgery and am backed up on the todo list and as noted, recovering...

Bill Anderson

>>>>>>>>Yupp, I always recommend to check the current capabilities of the package Rick offers.
>>>>>>>>Up next is a tossup of buying from other (relatively) small vendor or look in Dotnet...
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> or look in Dotnet...
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>They're built into .NET.
>>>>>>>This is probably a newbie question but can .NET code be easily run from VFP?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Define easy.
>>>>>>Check this years VirtualFoxFest. Rick Strahl had a great session about it. It's available to the VFP comunity.
>>>>>>https://virtualfoxfest.com/Sessions.aspx
>>>>>
>>>>>Easy = I can understand it
>>>>>Thank you, Lutz - I'll take a look
>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>>Hi Bill,
>>>>You can compile solutions in Dotnet as COM-compatible.
>>>>I am certain you can understand it and find relevant project options.
>>>>(Facepalms and forehead typing irrelevant)
>>>>For easier *development* I'd look into Rick's Dotnet bridge if using Dotnet dlls often.
>>>>Rick prefers slower Exe COM for his Web tools, marshalling cost should be ok in most apps
>>>>"Chunky, not Chatty" is mantra for layered code and just view Dotnet as added layer.
>>>>
>>>>my 0.22€
>>>>thomas
>>>
>>>Thomas. Thank you. I code a lot of .NET but haven't had the need to set a project up as COM yet.
>>
>>Better than going to C or C++ in vfp
>>and
>>the need to offer hooks from unmanaged code into Dotnet.
>>
>>COM was the first really workable cross -
>>(CORBA was a monster, old Java C bindings a pest)
>>integration into Dotnet without COM not easy (write a Roslyn offspring?)
>>GraalVM promises more freedom/capabilities, but I have only read blurbs, no hands on.
>>
>>my 0.02€
>>thomas
>
>I've only done one COM app.
>The client had a serial label printer on a PC and wanted other PC's to be able to use it.
>At that time you couldn't share a serial printer. That might be different now.
>So I wrote a VFP COM server app to run on the PC with the printer and some client apps on other PC's to call it.
>The documentation in VFP was good and I got the thing to run and the labels kept coming.