I am planning to rewrite my old Fox 2.6 app. I am too much into VB nowerdays.
This is nice. We do that kind of conversion from 2 years. Some of them are outsourcing.
So, I was thinking of some kind of a combined VB/VFP solution.
Most of applications which we do are VFP with included VB ActiveX controls. That is the reason to create VB team, which well know VFP and VB. Team leader is VB/SQL Server MCSD
The main reasons to stay in Fox are:
- data processing tools
- printing
- speed
The main advantages of FoxPro
So, I thought I'd build as much as I can in VB and leave some heavy data processing and printing in Fox.
Wrong strategy, you have to do previous described solution
Has anybody tried something like this?
No, never. We are not so crazy. There a lot of exsamples how to implement VB code in VFP but I have never lestened about that kind of solution. Advantage of VB is only Visual part, nothing more. Not Object oriented programming, not databases...
I faced one problem streight away. I built a Fox DLL and tried to use a class with a REPORT command. Fox didn't like it...

Is there a way to call Printing/Previewing built in Fox from VB?
No there are not that kind of way. You can use the same functions in VFP.