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VFP9 Beta available in June 2004?
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27/02/2004 02:35:07
 
 
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Visual FoxPro
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>Nice to see your picture there! ;-)

For me too! :-)

>Please, don't assume that the feature set that has being made public is the >only thing we'll see in Europa. I remember some people making that wrong >assumption after the first Toledo (VFP8) previews.

>Tipically, what's presented that early on the development cycle is 20~30% >of the final features.

Yes, it's my mistake. I could thought about this.

>In this particular case, anyway, I think there are already some impressive >new features, like:

>1. Object oriented reports (this one alone justifies the version for me!)
>2. User Interface: Docking forms, Anchoring properties for controls, >Rotating labels, Polypoints, and other GDI+ goodies.
>3. Background compilation (allowing Intellisense into With/Endwith, >For/Each, etc)

>And there lots other stuff, *plus* all that we don't know yet. My guess is >that Europa will be a great upgrade as Visual FoxPro 8, if not greater.

OK. Thank you all for taking away my fears.
/A new technology turns into completely outdated stuff before you have a time to read "Getting Started..." section.
/If there are some "system programmers" then others are unsystematic.
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