>>>>I
>>>>
>>>>I am an advanced programmer in FPW26 and I want to migrate fast in developping in VFW30.
>>>>
>>>>I try to find "Creating Visual FoxPro Applications" from George F. Goley IV but i cant find it anywere.
>>>>
>>>>Please did-you know where I can buy-it or somebody have one to buy?
>>>>
>>>>Or wich book we recommanded-me for fast migrate.
>>>>
>There is no quick way to migrate appropriately from 2.6 to 3.0/5.0. The
>convert app that comes with 3.0/5.0 is awesome, no doubt. It took my 4 MB
>exe and converted it with over 50 forms and 30 reports and a 1.4 MB prg
>file in 2.6 to 3.0 with only one error (i had a udf called ttoc and ctot
>that needed fixing as these are reserved functions in 3.0/5.0 with the
>new time format). The result however was a 2.6 app running under 3.0,
>not a VFP app. To rewrite the app into an event model from a read model
>and really take advantage of VFP with its grids, pageframes and more has
>taken me over 15 months and I'm about 95% done now.

I am in this process now except I am coming from FP2.5/dos. This makes things even more complex as screens don't convert properly due to all of the MSDOS specific characters and such. Even using the foxfont font doesn't help w/ a lot of the problems. What I had to do was copy the SPR files but not the SCX/T and maintain the screen files in dos (which is actually good because we are still using the dos version as well and it keeps the maintenance down to not have to maintain 2 sets of screens.

This is going to make it that much harder to go visual eventually, but one step at a time. Right now our need is to run the program from windows so that multiple users can run it under Citrix Winframe (dos version slams the processors too hard)