Microsoft Visual FoxPro Sedna Download available 1

[robsuttonjr]

In case some are not aware a community release of Sedna is available for download:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...AE-623C-4F63-AEB4-81C5053B5007&displaylang=en

Taken from NET3COM.doc:
The .NET Framework is a rich collection of namespaces and API that provides a comprehensive set of functionality that developers can use to build applications that run on the .NET platform. While VFP does have a rich library of API, there are some features that either don’t exist in the VFP libraries (such as cryptography) or are considerably harder to do.
NET4COM brings together a small subset of the .NET Framework — a collection of commonly used API that brings to VFP functionality that either did not exist before or was cumbersome to implement.
Several VS 2005 features distill and surface common code patterns and commonly referenced API in the form of the VB .MY namespace and Code Snippets. We will derive our subset based on these.
This document describes the NET4COM library that will ship as part of the Sedna release of Visual FoxPro. The NET4COM library will expose a set of COM objects. These objects will ‘wrap’ a small part of the .NET Framework to provide developers with a set of API that bring the power of the .NET Framework to VFP


Regards,

Rob

 

[robsuttonjr]

Also as a side note I found this intersting link that describes SEDNA, The Inuit Goddess of the Sea and Queen of the Eskimo Underworld (ADLIVUN).

Sedna:
She's a sinister hag with one eye, no fingers, and a giant bloated body. She is sometimes depicted as a walrus. This is a far cry from the good old days when she was a beautiful maiden. That's what being sacrificed to the sea does to you.

One legend tells how she made a vow to remain single in order to look after her poor old father. All suitors were spurned and offers of marriage refused.

Then one day a mysterious but utterly charming fellow turned up in his kayak (.NET). He was a handsome foreigner, intelligent, exotic and very alluring. Not only that, he was rich! SEDNA was offered blubber in abundance. Luxuriant furs to sleep on. All the fish oil she could possibly make use of. This was too much for a young girl to cope with and she allowed herself to be lured into his canoe.

The marriage was not a happy one (FoxPro & .NET). Although he adored her, she soon came to find him repellent. "You're not the man I married," she often said. With some justification as it turned out he was really a spooky bird-spirit. (Just found this intersting and wanted to pass it on.)

http://www.godchecker.com/pantheon/native_american-mythology.php?deity=SEDNA

Regards,

Rob

 

[Dan Freeman]

The code name is actually derived from the celestial body -- the small planetoid orbiting the sun beyond Pluto. It's the most distant (known) member of our solar system.

 

[Mike Lewis]

Dan,

I'm sure you're right about Pluto, but Rob's explanation is much more entertaining.

Rob, you get a star from me for providing a nice chuckle to start my day.

Mike

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Mike Lewis (Edinburgh, Scotland)

My Visual FoxPro site: www.ml-consult.co.uk

 

[robsuttonjr]

Thanks for the star. I was aware it wasn't the 'official' token name. I also found the goddess description entertaining, by not reading too deep.

Regards,

Rob