Reasons to Choose Microsoft Foxpro
Advantages of Microsoft Visual FoxProWith its local cursor engine, tight coupling between language and data, and powerful features, Visual FoxPro 9.0 is a great tool for building database solutions of all sizes. Its data-centric, object-oriented language offers developers a robust set of tools for building database applications for the desktop, client-server environments, or the Web. Developers have the necessary tools to manage data—from organising tables of information, running queries, and creating an integrated relational database management system (DBMS) to programming a fully-developed data management application for end users. Visual Foxpro, VFP, provides developers with high productivity tools for data manipulation and rapid development of user-friendly applications that can manage highly complex information and business processes. "What sets Foxpro apart from other typical development tools like Visual Basic is that it has its own engine for data, and the language is specifically tailored around that database engine, so when you're doing database programming, the language and the engine feel like one thing." |
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FoxPro - Native Database XBase Language
use product
replace all cost with cost * 1.05
use
VB.Net - Using ADO
Dim oConn = CreateObject("adodb.Connection")
oConn.Open(Driver={Microsoft Access Driver (*.mdb)};
Dbq=news.mdb; Uid=admin; Pwd=")
oConn.Execute("UPDATE Product SET Cost = Cost * 1.05")
oConn.Close
Visual FoxPro is unique because it combines tight native data integration with high level software development technologies such as an extremely sophisticated object model, powerful Object Orientated Programming and a very feature rich data centric Xbase language.
Visual FoxPro uses the same SQL queries included with most other database development products. Additionally the data centric Xbase language within Foxpro can further process data in ways that traditional SQL statements simply cannot handle. This ability makes Visual FoxPro an ideal software development tool for processing and analysing large complex volumes of data.
With proper database design and management, Visual FoxPro can easily and efficiently handle most business applications. Visual FoxPro is an ideal, cost effective solution for organizations with moderate to high levels of data transactions. Each data table within a Visual FoxPro database can support up to 2 Gigabytes of data and 1 billion records.
Thousands of key business systems rely on Foxpro.
Features of Visual FoxPro
Highly customisable forms : Toolbars, docking, page tabs, grids - change colour
Developer tools - OO, class builder intellisense, debugger, profiler powerful event driven forms
Supports for XML and web services to interact with .Net and SQL Server
OLEDB for support for web application that need to access FoxPro data via SQL queries
COM programming to interact with Microsoft Office applications - Word, Access, Excel
There are a wide variety of add-on components that extend beyond the supplied functionality of Visual FoxPro.
Runtime royalty free.
FoxPro has been developed and improved over many years and is now in version 9.0.
The new version now includes a a completely revamped multiple band report writer -> HTML, image and print. Structured error handling, resizeable forms
Foxpro is not suited in the following situations
1) Processing extremely large quantities of records per day - millions.
2) Extremely high levels of concurrent usage - thousands.
3) High levels of administrative security are required.
4) In situations where 24 hour availability is required is required. You can not backup a Foxpro database without stopping all applications that have access.
5) Your organization requires a software development tool that can be easily used by non-programmers to make modifications. Microsoft Access provides use-friendly tools for users with little or no database management/programming expertise.
6) The entire database application needs to be extremely portable. Microsoft Access stores data and applications in a single file making it easy to transfer from one computer to another. Foxpro only runs on Windows.
7) Many web hosting companies do not support access to Foxpro databases.
In cases 1 to 4 SQL Server (or Oracle) would be indicated. Visual FoxPro could still be used to build the user interface to these database servers.
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