All About Visual FoxPro
What is Visual FoxPro? • VFP is an object-oriented
programming environment. • It is the fastest built-
in relational database engine
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.
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.
Different Datatypes in Visual FoxPro
Memo storage with many audio-video files, etc.
Boolean value storage
Digit- Numerical value storage, decimal values storage <= 20
Character storage with characters’ limit= 250 and default width 10
Float values- Storage with default value 10
Dynamic general data storage
Date storage with characters’ width 10
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
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.
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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