Product Purchase Help

Its been a few years since Foxpro 2.0, Borland C++ 3.1, VB 5.0, Codebase 2.5
etc ... been off on other development tangents in the RS6000 world ... now
have a client that needs some ACCESS database work ... I have been using
ACCESS 2000 and not liking it very much ... ASP looks interesting ... but Im
having no luck in narrowing down a dev tool to go forward with

What am I looking for ... something current that I can create applets for
distribution that don't require additional licencing on the users part.

I have several Access databases that are 5 to 100MB that need to have
multiple user access which will be deployed on Win2K Pro Serverless peer 2
peer machines

Foxro used to have a licence free engine which could be packaged up with an
application EXE as did VB ...

What products would I need to do this today?
there appear to be several flavours of Visual studio that claim the ability
to develope in Foxpro, CSharp or VB

Or am I better off getting a Visual Foxpro or VBasic

I downloaded the free ASP webmatrix and played with SQL on a test database
however the moment I attempted to connect to a 100M databas it crashed

Thanx in advance

Craig
Fri Jan 07 17:07:36 CST 2005

Fox still has a royalty free runtime. It is not included with the current
version of Visual Studio. Stay away from VB 6, as VB.NET is a very different
animal and there isn't much of a migration path. VFP 9.0 was released last
month. You can probably get it from your favorite reseller or
www.foxtoolbox.com.

--
Craig Berntson
MCSD, Visual FoxPro MVP
www.craigberntson.com
Salt Lake City Fox User Group
www.slcfox.org
www.foxcentral.net


"bjdobs" <bjdobs@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:68600DE3-5744-4306-89B9-4D02DF32DEDC@microsoft.com...
> Its been a few years since Foxpro 2.0, Borland C++ 3.1, VB 5.0, Codebase
> 2.5
> etc ... been off on other development tangents in the RS6000 world ...
> now
> have a client that needs some ACCESS database work ... I have been using
> ACCESS 2000 and not liking it very much ... ASP looks interesting ... but
> Im
> having no luck in narrowing down a dev tool to go forward with
>
> What am I looking for ... something current that I can create applets for
> distribution that don't require additional licencing on the users part.
>
> I have several Access databases that are 5 to 100MB that need to have
> multiple user access which will be deployed on Win2K Pro Serverless peer
> 2
> peer machines
>
> Foxro used to have a licence free engine which could be packaged up with
> an
> application EXE as did VB ...
>
> What products would I need to do this today?
> there appear to be several flavours of Visual studio that claim the
> ability
> to develope in Foxpro, CSharp or VB
>
> Or am I better off getting a Visual Foxpro or VBasic
>
> I downloaded the free ASP webmatrix and played with SQL on a test
> database
> however the moment I attempted to connect to a 100M databas it crashed
>
> Thanx in advance

Paul
Fri Jan 07 17:09:44 CST 2005

I like and recommend FoxPro. But then, I'm prejudiced, because I use it all
the time. But what else would you expect? You did post in a FoxPro newsgroup
after all.

BTW, the latest release of FoxPro is version 9, but it may not have hit the
store shelves yet. If all you can find is version 8, hold out until you can
get the new one.



"bjdobs" <bjdobs@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:68600DE3-5744-4306-89B9-4D02DF32DEDC@microsoft.com...
> Its been a few years since Foxpro 2.0, Borland C++ 3.1, VB 5.0, Codebase
> 2.5
> etc ... been off on other development tangents in the RS6000 world ...
> now
> have a client that needs some ACCESS database work ... I have been using
> ACCESS 2000 and not liking it very much ... ASP looks interesting ... but
> Im
> having no luck in narrowing down a dev tool to go forward with
>
> What am I looking for ... something current that I can create applets for
> distribution that don't require additional licencing on the users part.
>
> I have several Access databases that are 5 to 100MB that need to have
> multiple user access which will be deployed on Win2K Pro Serverless peer
> 2
> peer machines
>
> Foxro used to have a licence free engine which could be packaged up with
> an
> application EXE as did VB ...
>
> What products would I need to do this today?
> there appear to be several flavours of Visual studio that claim the
> ability
> to develope in Foxpro, CSharp or VB
>
> Or am I better off getting a Visual Foxpro or VBasic
>
> I downloaded the free ASP webmatrix and played with SQL on a test
> database
> however the moment I attempted to connect to a 100M databas it crashed
>
> Thanx in advance