Hi, Joel,


What version of Fox are these apps running? Do you think they make full use of VFP features, or are they just ports from Fox 2.x? In other words, would a rewrite be in the plans even if they stayed with VFP, or is this just a way for them to get off of Fox and on to .NET? Just curious.


Good question, and actually 'yes' to all. One was a Fox2x app, one was a VFP8 app, one a VFP8 app that was really 'written' in VFP7 and then recompiled in 8 with a few tweaks.

All of them wanted a clean break. I really wasn't involved much in the decisions - the plan was to bite the bullet, believing it was best to deal with 2 technologies (.NET and SQL) instead of 3. I do realize that some places want to take an incremental approach, because of time pressures or other factors - David Stephenson talked about this in a post last month.

The growing popularity of frameworks like Mere Mortals and related/follow-up consulting makes the concept of writing it all in .NET a little more attractive and palatable.

Kevin