Level Extreme platform
Subscription
Corporate profile
Products & Services
Support
Legal
Français
Convert the dos fox project in visual foxpro 8
Message
General information
Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
Other
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
00934553
Message ID:
00934676
Views:
25
>>How i can convert the dos foxpro project in vf8.Have any utility to convert the spr into scx. or any method to work old project in visual foxpro 8.
>
>Not a good idea. The converters do not do a good job. The OOP and visual VFP paradigms are so different than the old FPD 2.x that they really can't. Whatever you convert you will not be happy with.
>
>This is the time to reengineer and rearchitect the program taking advantage of visual forms instead of screens, methods instead of snippets, DBF instead of free tables, and most important of all: OOP, encapsulation, inheritance, etc.
>
>You can probably salvage some of the code, especially the business rules. All of the data is compatible and can be easily transferred to new table structures. But you should redo all your screens and other objects.

Alex,

I agree completely. Doing a "deep port" will reduce both development and maintenance time.

BTW, Are you home now after Charley? Hope all is well.
George

Ubi caritas et amor, deus ibi est
Previous
Next
Reply
Map
View

Click here to load this message in the networking platform