cassie1964
Programmer
Hello,
I have been programming for 16 years starting with Dbase,Fox base, Dbase, Rbase, Clipper, Basic Pro, Visual Basic, Mainframe for the last couple of years. My programming in a Client Server Environment as been with Visual Basic 6.0 using ODBC Direct/Record Sets. With DB2,Sybase,Informix etc. I have been working with VFP 6.0 for two days on something that should be very simple like ODBC/DSN and found out that VB is very simple compared with Visual FoxPro that seems to just be a hacked add on to the language.
Question 1. Is VFP a programming language/ environment that MicroSoft is going to support long term.
Question 2. Simple things like ODBC DSN does not seem to supported by the programming command language. Is it?
Question 3. The commands in VFP 6.0 seem to me tobe OLD compared to VB 6.0 and .Net.
Question 4. Should I take this job.
Question 5. Help file for VFP 6.0 can I download it from somewhere?
Sincereyly,
Cassie
I have been programming for 16 years starting with Dbase,Fox base, Dbase, Rbase, Clipper, Basic Pro, Visual Basic, Mainframe for the last couple of years. My programming in a Client Server Environment as been with Visual Basic 6.0 using ODBC Direct/Record Sets. With DB2,Sybase,Informix etc. I have been working with VFP 6.0 for two days on something that should be very simple like ODBC/DSN and found out that VB is very simple compared with Visual FoxPro that seems to just be a hacked add on to the language.
Question 1. Is VFP a programming language/ environment that MicroSoft is going to support long term.
Question 2. Simple things like ODBC DSN does not seem to supported by the programming command language. Is it?
Question 3. The commands in VFP 6.0 seem to me tobe OLD compared to VB 6.0 and .Net.
Question 4. Should I take this job.
Question 5. Help file for VFP 6.0 can I download it from somewhere?
Sincereyly,
Cassie