Robin,

>I hope the dbf file could not be open from VFP while it packeged with the compiled programm.

There are Database events in VFP7. You could check for the presence of an application object and refuse to open the table if it wasn't there.


>I hope the database file could encrypt the dbf file inside it by some command, at least for some fields like password etc.

Have you looked at Cipher here in the downloads?


>I hope the pack command can delete the deleted records in backgroud and no need to use the file exclusive. And aslo can provide some parameters to pack all the tables in the database once.

>I hope there would be some commands in VFP 7 to help us access the table name and table fields of a database while runtime, if including the fields alias is better. In that way, we could set up our own data dictionary easily.

The .DBC is just another table. You can USE it and read it to get names of tables and other information. You can also use the AFIELDS() command to get information about a table that is open.


>I hope VFP 7 could provide the small data server functions.
>I hope VFP 7 could be complied into local code which can run stand alone without the very large DLL files which provide a lot of functions not used inthe programms.