Customer Reviews

Microsoft Visual FoxPro 7.0 Professional Upgrade [Old Version]

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A lot of the enhancements to VFP7 are not necessarily noticed by those who don't lift the hood. Yes, the Intellisense is great and the ability to do XML transactions over the web is great, but don't forget about the ability to write/use web services (part of .Net), the fact you can create/run VFP6 apps without recompiling (try that with .Net). You can now do Event Binding to COM/ActiveX objects (3rd party controls), it has strong data typing (oh yes), it can "implement interfaces" like java, it has "database container events", it is OLE DB accessible by other apps (not just ODBC), it uses Installshield for installations, etc.

Visual Foxpro extends the VFP legacy of not leaving current developers behind while embracing the best of the newest technologies and wrapping them in the fastest database engine on Earth.

I use Visual Basic, C, Java, and Visual Foxpro - VFP allows me to build the most feature-rich, fast applications in the least amount of time which is crucial for any consultant!

VFP has always been a very good choice to handle data in a fast development cycle business world, but VFP7 brings many UI improvements that make it even easier to get things done fast and get new developers up to speed. The addition of VB-like intellisense reduces the F1 trips to check for syntax. The new strong typing will help reduce run-time errors as they should be caught by the compiler. VFP handles up to 2G of data per table, and can have as many tables in a database as you like. It also handles multiple user connections very well. You don't have the restrictions of some databases like ACCESS. When your data get too big, you can easily move to any ODBC SQL server (MSSQL, Oricle,...). VFP scales and integrates with SQL very easily. VFP7 adds on to its ability to be a fast processor of data for asp pages, the ability to integrate with SOAP for real-time messaging.

This is a great product for windows based data intensive development. I would suggest that anyone considering which language to use seriously consider VFP.

With Foxpro, you don't need ADO, recordsets, complicated SQL syntactical nightmares. It scales to incredible sizes, provides multi-user DB access right out of the box, has no overbearing customer facing run time licenses, and saves you big bucks. It connects smoothly to SQL server and Oracle. It exports data to Excel Spreadsheets with a single line of code. It's string handling is fast and efficient, and the environment focuses developers on data first. Version 7 has a few good enhancements like CursorToXML and .dll creation that make it worthwhile. The Intellisense is great if you don't already know the language.
I get more done with Foxpro in twenty minutes than most VB programmers do in a week!

I've been developing in the beta version of VFP 7 for the past 6 months, and so far I've had a great experience with it. Even in beta I've found the product to be robust and reliable. In VFP 7 it even easier to develop applications due to it many new features such as intellisense (you start a command, and the program provides the possible options to finish it). I'm to the point where I feel a bit too contrained when I have to go back and use VFP 6.0 for code maintenance purposes. I know I can't wait for the final release of version 7 -- I'll be first in line to purchase.

Visual FoxPro has evolved into one of the most powerful Database development systems available today. The IDE is richly endowed with user aids and the renowned data engine cannot be beat! We use VFP to develop everything from desktop applications to Web based client server with VFP front ends. Data driven web development is efficient, fast and READY TODAY!

1. Stable 2. Powerful 3. Friendly 4. Flexible

Get it. It works.

Having been an early Beta Tester for VFP7 I must say that I am extremely pleased with its performance and its enhancements from previous versions.

An excellent improvement on a very mature and stable OOP database development language, it is well at ease using its native data engine as well as working asa front end or middle tier for any other DBMS, from SQL Server to Oracle to MySQL.

It finally brings Intellisense and an OLEDB Provider!

Visual FoxPro is the only Microsoft development language that can play in any tier of an N-Tier system.

It works well with all the current technologies, MTS, COM, COM+, ADO, XML, ActiveX, etc.

Well worth your adding it to your programmer's toolset!

With all the fuzz round .NET quite a lot of developers seem to forget that desktop applications are still widely used. Well, with VFP one can create desktop apps that connect to the web just as easy. Either through the use of the browser or with web services, supply and consume XML webservices like a breeze and the web is your network.
Use just half the amount of lines you need in .NET to get things done and deploy your apps faster then a pure .NET developer can think of.
Get it, or even better get the latest and the best, VFP8.

VFP has always been about speed and now this version makes it extremely easy to put that database and string processing speed to use in VFP mtdlls and XML Web Services. For rapidly developing web apps, compare the speed, robustness, and scalability of VFP 7 to anything out there(yes, Oracle too) at a fraction of the price of other solutions.

The vest version yet??? Bull Hockey!!! This product has been generally available for less than a month. How could anyone know whether it is the "Best Version Yet". Some people just get carried away, or maybe they work for Microsoft.

Visual FoxPro is a powerful, flexible, and robust language for developing data base applications. Far superior to its competition. ....

But this upgrade is little more than an enhanced maintenance release. There are an even dozen useful language improvements -- most of which should have been incorporated into the language years ago.

There are some new development interface features that may aid development speed. Most of these (i.e. IntelliSense) have been available for years from third parties -- usually free.

This release falls far short of a major upgrade to the language. Bill Gates must need the money. I would wait for Version 8.0 if I had the choice.

This version of Vfox is the best one before today.

Not only the Intellisence, but all the new resources are fantastics.

So simple like CURSORRW in select or so complex like advanced object this version is the best of all !!!!!!!