>The idea is to be able to re-use vfp code easily in .NET without having to rewrite everything in C# or VB.NET. Yes, it can be done, but, not with any help from MS. There's little or no documentation or examples of this in VFP9(or VFP8 for that matter) and it seems like they purposely are not devoting any time to it.
What do you want? Tutorials? Examples? There's plenty online (starting with the MSDN site) and as part of the task pane that links to a lot of different content. The documentation isn't meant as a tutorial on how to apply the product but as reference to how the tool works. Stuff like that doesn't belong in the docs.
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>>What tools do you need?
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>>This has been discussed in the past at Microsoft and among MVPs, but what benefit do you see from something 'managed through VFP'? Interop with .NET is easy as it is, even though fraught with problems due to VFPs typeless nature. None of it is insurmountable...
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>>COM interop provides all the interaction you might need, no?
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>>I'm curious to hear what you have in mind... you might remember Ken's post here a while back to some of hte tools that they have built internally to access .NET classes directly, which in my mind makes little sense and if anything is counter productive to using the best of what both worlds have to offer.
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>>>If ken and the VFP team would help us do interop between VFP and .NET(documentation, examples,etc.), then we could get our feet wet with .NET while taking advantage of critical code we already have in VFP. The VFP9 beta is kind of disappointing in this regard. You would think MS would want to do this since it would mean buying 2 products or more (vfp9,vs.net,sql)instead of just 1.
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>>>>I am an old FoxBASE then FoxPro user (we will NOT discuss how old).
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>>>>I use West Wind to build Web applications using FoxPro.
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>>>>I am NOT a great programmer (more of a business manager than programmer). However FoxPro has let me build some wonderful applications over the years.
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>>>>It looks like I am going to be forced to follow the crowd and go to Dot Net.
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>>>>Please give me your thoughts, should I go to VB or C # ?
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>>>>Now the truth is I am going to keep using FoxPro as long as I can, and I will buy every version of FoxPro that comes out, but it looks like I need to learn another language too.
