PLEASE, SOME HELP !!!!

[venado]

HI THERE,

I need to develop an application, in visual foxpro, using foxpro dos files that being shared in others dos applications throught the network. The files are not in a database container. These files are shared free tables.

How i go about developing such an application in visual foxpro?

ANY SUGGESTION!

 

[DEDMOD]

To quote directly from the VFP 6 help files:

"You can run generated FoxPro 2.6 files and use reports, queries, and tables directly in Visual FoxPro without having to convert them."

As far as tables themselves go:

"FoxPro 2.6 tables (.dbf files) open in the Table Designer without being converted.
Visual FoxPro converts tables only if you add a new data type, enable null values in any field, add a code page, or add the table to a database. For details, see Checking Converted FoxPro 2.6 Tables."

So what exactly is it you're concerned about?

Dave Dardinger

 

[DannC]

As DEDMOD said U can use this files but I suggest to convert them to VFP. To develop a APP for netw use see MDSN (Chapter 17: Programming for Shared Access) or get online an have a look to MS page. Anyway what do U want to do ?

 

[GaryWilsonCPA]

How about linking with odbc to the files you want to use and creating new files to link to old files that may contain new data. This way you leave the old system 100% in place.
This also opens up the possible use of other databases besides foxpro.

 

[SGLong]

Venado,

Since you want to use VFP for your program, but you need to keep the FP2.x style files because of other DOS applications, be sure to use SET CPDIALOG OFF in your visual code or it will update the code pages of the tables and they won't be readable by the DOS applications.

Steve

 

[venado]

Thank you all. I'll check all these issues.