VS Integration

You can use the VIsual Studio IDE to create VFP Middle Tier COmponents. Or so the help says, I haven't had time to dive that far into this stuff. So if anyone wants to throw out some warnings or advice that would be great.

In any case, "VFP Middle Tier Project" is a project type in the VS IDE, which allows you to create Single or Multiple threaded DLLs from VFP PRGs. You can also debug the DLL from the application while its running, all these options are available in the VS debugger:

Stepping into Visual FoxPro dll from a Visual FoxPro exe
Stepping from a non-Visual FoxPro program into a Visual FoxPro dll
Line breakpoints and Line Conditional breakpoints; pass count on Line breakpoints
Run To Cursor
Document/Function Debugging Support
Attach to the running Visual FoxPro process
Detach from an attached Visual FoxPro process
Variable expression evaluation for tooltips in a Visual Studio code window
Locals window shows simple variables, arrays, and objects
Watch window
Call Stack window
Output window (using Debugout)
Debugging code in memo fields
Show Next Statement
Build routine for localizing debug engine resources
Tracking HitCount on breakpoints
Error handling for invalid breakpoints
Expansion in Locals window for arrays and objects
Showing method and procedure arguments for each stack.
Hexadecimal display

VFP also includes an Application (stored in the _VSBUILD system variable) that "that builds and processes a Visual Studio project." However, I can't run it from a PRG or the command window ("Application is not supported in Interactive Mode") and the Help says its ignored at the runtime.

If anyone has gotten a chance to play with this stuff in the VS.NET beta, and knows more, let us know.