SD Times: Microsoft Updates Visual FoxPro

SD Times: Microsoft Updates Visual FoxPro "SQL Server and Access get all the attention, but the not-so-famous FoxPro database appears to be alive and well at Microsoft Corp.
Last month the company made available at msdn.microsoft.com/vfoxpro the beta version of Visual FoxPro 9.0. Among the many features new to 9.0 is the ability to create .NET-compatible solutions using XML Web services, said Visual FoxPro product manager Ken Levy.
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Although the market for Visual FoxPro is not expanding rapidly, the database has a loyal following among roughly 100,000 users worldwide, most of whom have used it for more than 10 years, Levy said, adding that because it includes a language, an IDE shell and a database engine all in one, FoxPro is attractive to developers who do data-centric programming. The language is tightly bound with the database engine features, and unlike most databases, FoxPro supported object orientation as early as 1995, said Levy."

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