Backup Material for VB.NET/ASP.NET versus Visual Foxpro

[jzelhart]

Looking for some direction...

My company purchased another company. They program in Foxpro and Visual Foxpro. We do Visual Basic and now VB.NET/ASP.NET. I need to find some backup material for my fight to stay with VB.NET.

We are software development company, so we develop software for resale. My boss and I think the only way to go is internet based software using ASP.NET. I just need to back that up with some facts.

Any direction would be appreciated.

Hope everyone is having a great day!

Thanks - Jennifer

 

[bassguy]

Jennifer,

I started 7 months ago with a company that had its app built in foxpro...after a few weeks it was apparent that .net was the way to go for a few of the following reasons:


1. Foxpro deals with records One row at a time. .net or VB allows you to use datasets and handle things as a table.
this can mean that foxpro needs to create a Empty row in the datatable before you add your data to it. As compared to using a SQL server or something on the backside and only adding data when you have already validated it etc.

2. Foxpro is a language at the end of its career .net is at the beginning of its career. Where will you be in 3 or 4 more years with a foxpro app?

3. There are User Controls everywhere for .net in both web and winform flavors....and even cooler there are C#, VB, C++ languages that you can choose from to do your developing and you can mix and match and swap languages within your app. More to the point, If the other developers (fox pro) guys feel more comfortable learning VB, and yourr team feels more comfortable using c#. you can still use each others DLL's and parts within each project.


Lets see.... there is also WEB services......if you are looking for a way to leverage or share data via the internet. ....

well...as you can see there seems to be a lot of reasons to get away from Foxpro....



hope that helps

Bassguy

 

[jzelhart]

Thank you Bassguy.

Hope everyone is having a great day!

Thanks - Jennifer

 

[deanc24]

Hi Jennifer.
(this is Dean)
Been trying to track you down. Hope everythign is ok with your carreer. email me! deanc24 at hotmail dot com.

As for your issue with going with ASP.NET, I think its the only way to go. Platofrm independent, target independent. .NET has the ability to display data for PC's, web browsers, mobile phones, etc. And all with minimal code changes.