>I have a visual foxpro 3.0b windows app that is basically running old style @ say/get types of 2.6 .spr and .prg code for the most part and I was wondering what people's experience has been for running this kind of code (not the regular forms but the old stuff in compatibility mode) in VFP 5, 6 or 7.
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>Also, I was wondering if the deployment requirements as far as a CPU or ram memory changed between these versions. I am currently deploying on VFP3.0b and wondered what minimum system requirements would change if I went to 5 or 6 or 7. I realize that 7 is new and so maybe nobody knows about that yet, but I was just wondering people's impressions so far on that too. I've seen that VFP5 is faster than 3 but does it do that by upping the requirements to a more powerful macheine?
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>Thanks for any suggestions or ideas.

Ed;

I have gone the 2.6 to VFP 3, 5, 6 route - only because I was paid. My advice is to do a complete re write! It saves maintenance and reduces feature introduction for any new additions.

VFP 5 was a great improvement over version 3 and VFP 6 with SP 3 (min) made me happy! VFP 5 made some real improvements in removing "baggage" that VFP 3.0 had and this helped speed up forms, etc.

As an example of system requirements for VFP 7.0 try http://msdn.microsoft.com/vfoxpro/prodinfo/datasheet/specifications.asp

VFP 6.0 with SP 5 is a very stable product. VFP 7.0 is the new kid on the block. If you are conservative use VFP 6.0 otherwise VFP 7.0

Also I suggest you look into one of the many frameworks like Visual FoxExpress or Visual MaxFrame Professional to name but just two, before you do anything serious.

I am near San Jose - where are you located?

Tom