Hello John,

Good points, hope the conversion works out well for you

Bob

>Just to add to this... don't get discouraged by the all the talk of VFP's lifespan. Heck, I still have apps written in Foxbase+ (converted to FoxPro 2.5 DOS) that are still functioning and running in Windows XP. The app is used by a $ 50 million dollar company who couldn't be happier with the fact that the app is sold, reliable, and extensible. We are in the process of converting it to VFP; which will take 2-3 years. I can't think of any other development tool that would allow you to convert an app from DOS to Windows and be able to share the data files. FoxPro and VFP allows you to do this, although it may not be the most effective way to convert small apps. But it allows us to convert using existing data files (since VFP will use data and indexes compatible with FoxPro DOS) and then once the app is fully converted to VFP, we can do a 2nd conversion to optimize for VFP.
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>I just can't conceive of another development tool that would allow you to do this.
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>>Hello All,
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>>It has been pointed out, and probably correctly so, that the negative slants of the topics do not contribute to VFP's life span. So, this thread is dedicated to the MANY smart and innovative programmers that have kept the fox alive all these years.
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>>I would like to share why I LOVE and use VFP everyday!
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>>1) It has a counter culture edge, the red headed orphan of MS.
>>2) I don't need a lot of extra crap to make it work, It can work with SQL, ActiveX, etc; but generally not necessary because VFP does what I need.
>>3) The programming community that has formed around VFP is awesome, look at some other forums and you will see this. The only other example of a great community I have seen is for Delphi.
>>4) It's cost effective, without all the license requirements it is easy to maintain and upgrade users. With VFP the programmer reaps the benefit of his work, not some big corporation.
>>5) Fast Development, boss needs a handful of improvements, not unusual to deliver them the same day. Great development environment, useable and extensible.
>>6) Experience, remaining VFP programmers have a lot more experience than other developers (on average)
>>7) VFP is very good at maintaining backward compatibility, Although I don't recommend it, I have apps I wrote 20 years ago that run almost unaltered on the latest version. They don't break much, making my life easier.
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>>There are more reasons, just wanted to start the ball rolling. Please try to keep this thread positive, all you nay-sayers out there have ample opportunity on other threads to state your point of view.
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>>Bob