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Visual Fox. Pro 8. 0 Name Title Company

Agenda 2. 0 u u u 10 Years of Visual Fox. Pro Road to VFP 8. 0 Goals and overview of VFP 8. 0 features and technology Resources Summary

10 Years of Visual Fox. Pro u Eric Rudder, Sr VP, Developer and Platform Evangelism at Microsoft, has expressed Microsoft's thanks for the "Microsoft and Fox. Pro 10 Year Anniversary Card" sent to Microsoft.

Beyond VFP 8. 0 …

Microsoft Executive Support for Visual Fox. Pro 8. 0 VIDEO

Road to Visual Fox. Pro 8. 0 u u u Base it on wish list customer feedback Add new runtime features - end users Enhance SQL Server connectivity Increase. NET interoperability Maintain backward compatibility

VFP 8. 0 Goals - Overview u Provide a better Smart Client v Increased u Improve v More Distributed Client (Web/COM) XML, . NET, SQL Server connectivity u Improve v New Windows Platform support Developer Productivity base classes and error handling u Increase v Better Discoverability navigation and documentation

Visual Fox. Pro 8. 0 and. NET u u Works well with Visual Studio. NET Greatly enhanced XML support v v u VFP OLE DB Provider v v u u XML Web services ADO. NET ASP. NET Web forms. NET Windows forms Visual Fox. Pro Toolkit for. NET VFP and. NET teams working together

Productivity Enhancements u u u Taskpane Toolbox Empty class Add. Property() and Remove. Property() Collection class Structured Error Handling v u TRY/CATCH/FINALLY Event Binding v BINDEVENT() and RAISEEVENT()

Productivity Enhancements u u u u u Getfile() dialog Auto-increment Table designer View Designer Child member subclassing VCX support for more classes Many new features for Grid control Code References tool Stability is a feature!

New Report Writer Features u u u u Page X of Y Allow user to suppress printing dialog Chain multiple reports as one print job Print Page Header and Footer when Summary Band is on it's own page Stretchable page Footer and Summary Use DBC Field Caption Properties when dropping fields into a Report Option for printer environment saving

XMLAdapter Class u u Beyond XMLTo. Cursor/Cursor. To. XML Hierarchical XML support v v u XML diff grams v v u u Multiple VFP data cursors to XML to multiple VFP data cursors, tables, DBC ADO. NET compatible XMLTable and XMLField classes Full control of XSD schema used

Cursor. Adapter Class u Similar to Data. Adapter in ADO. NET v v u u ADO/OLEDB ODBC Native VFP cursors XML and XML Web services Programmable events Stored procedures control

Cursor. Adapter Class Data Source DBF Remote Views Native SQL Native XML VFP Client ODBC DBF SQL Pass. Through VFP Cursors ADO/OLEDB HTTP Cursor. Adapter Auto-Update Object Methods/Events Custom Commands Stored Procedures VFP Cursors

New Data Features u u u u Data. Environment subclassing Data. Environment Builder Cursor. Adapter class Cursor. Adapter Builder XMLAdapter class Form Bind. Controls property Enhanced VFP OLE DB Provider VFP 8. 0 and VS. NET interoperability

VFP 8. 0 XML Web Services u u u OLEDB ASP. NET Win. Form Phone Pocket PC Tablet PC

VFP 8. 0 Performance u LOCAL a 1[10000] x 1=SECONDS() FOR i = 1 TO 10000 a 1[i]=CREATEOBJECT("Custom") ENDFOR RELEASE a 1 x 2=SECONDS() ? x 2 -x 1 u VFP 7. 0 = 24. 5 seconds VFP 8. 0 = 0. 45 seconds u

Visual Fox. Pro 8. 0 Features u Structured TRY/CATCH error handling Windows XP Theme Support Extended SQL Server connectivity Expanded Visual Studio. NET compatibility Hierarchical XML integration with VFP data Enhanced XML Web services Native VFP object event binding Auto-increment support View designer enhancements New imaging support using GDI+ New base classes and subclassing New features in form controls More development productivity u Much, much more! u u u

Got. Dot. Net. com VFP Web Site u u u http: //gotdotnet. com/team/vfp VFP 8. 0 case study template download Sr VP Eric Rudder on VFP 8. 0 video New VFP with VS. NET resource links More updated content coming soon

Resources u MSDN Subscriptions u http: //msdn. microsoft. com/vfoxpro u http: //gotdotnet. com/team/vfp u http: //asp. net u http: //foxcentral. net u http: //www. universalthread. com

Summary & Call to Action u u u u u Educate and evangelize to others Great new features in VFP 8. 0 works great with SQL Server VFP 8. 0 works great with VS. NET Upgrade applications for VFP 8. 0 MSDN now, stand-alone mid-March Submit VFP 8. 0 case studies Be active in the Fox. Pro community Use and talk about VFP 8. 0!!!