All About FoxPro Development by Apptread

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All About Visual FoxPro
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What is Visual FoxPro? 

• VFP is an object-oriented programming
  environment. 
• It is the fastest built-in relational database
  engine 

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History of Visual FoxPro 

• 1992- Microsoft acquired Fox Software, a year
  after it released FoxPro 2.0 version. 
• 1995- Name changed to Microsoft Visual FoxPro.
  Same year version 3.0 released.
• 1996 to 2004- Released 5 versions, except 4.0.
  Released till version 9.0.
• Late 2007- Stopped supporting Visual FoxPro.
• 2010- Ended technical support to last version
  I.e., 9.0.
• 2015- Extended support also ended.

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Features of Microsoft Visual FoxPro 

• VFP includes a class browser and numerous class
  libraries. 
• Offer data dictionary capabilities and
  dynamic subclassing (during runtime).
• Adds/delete data from the database. 
• Processes data.
• Visual FoxPro development is referred to as
• Rapid app development 
• Text processing is quick. 
• Bundle of best visual tools. 
• Cheap and supportive to multimedia DB. 
• Web service creation and consumption. 

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Different Datatypes in Visual FoxPro 
Digit- Numerical value storage, decimal values
storage lt 20
Float values- Storage with default value 10
Date storage with characters width 10
Boolean value storage
Character storage with characters limit 250 and
default width 10
Memo storage with many audio-video files, etc. 
Dynamic general data storage
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Advantages of Visual FoxPro 

• A mix of OOP programming and procedural 
• XBASE to manage the high complexities of the
  projects
• A blend of Xbase OOP with properties, events,
  and methods (PEMs) offers high flexibility 
• Data-driven software apps 
• Analysis of large volume of data and creation of
  data processing routines 
• Most steady bug-free software system on the
  market 
• In-built native data coupled with best
  development techs 

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Disadvantages of Visual FoxPro 

• Daunting VFP database security management.
• Single OS support to Visual FoxPro 
• Rare availability of skilled VFP  developer.
• Non-ability to perform well on a large number of
  platforms, devices, etc. 

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Major Industry Using Visual FoxPro Even Today

• The Healthcare and Medical Sector 
• Financial and Medical Sector 
• Retail Sector 
• Real estate Sector 
• And many more 

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