VFP 6 to VFP 9 upgrade 1

[David Higgs]

Hi,
Should I uninstall VFP 6 before installing VFP 9 ?

Regards,
David

 

[JackTheC]

No, I have both installed.

 

[Olaf Doschke]

The only thing that will not work with both versions at the same time is file extension associations, eg a double clicked pjx file will trigger VFP9 to start after installing VFP9.
This is of course just a little bit of trouble, as you can always start VFP6 first and then MODIFY PROJ or USE some DBF or whatever.

Just be prepared some things you begin working on in VFP9 get upgraded in a way they no longer open in VFP6. Eg the anchor property is added to forms and controls and VFP6 can't cope with it, especially once you begin to set these properties in VFP9. And it'll not be handled as any unknown user defined property in VFP6, there are some incompatibilities.

To be able to continue to work on VFP6 projects with VFP6 always work on copies of these projects and all their files with VFP9, then you're on the safe side.
Others might tell you different here, but you can't go wrong separating your VFP6 and 9 versions of things for the same reasons you do backups to be able to go back to some earlier state.

Bye, Olaf.

 

[Mike Lewis]

Welcome to the forum, David. As the others have indicated, there is no problem in having 6.0 and 9.0 installed on the same machine at the same time. Most of us have developed systems in various versions over the years, and therefore need to keep these installed for maintenance purposes, and so forth.

But that doesn't mean that you can simply move a project from 6.0 to 9.0 and expect it to work exactly the same as before. Ther are several minor incompatibilities that can trip you up. Check the What's New section of the VFP 9 Help file for details of some of them.

Mike


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[David Higgs]

Thank you all for your replies and the friendly welcome. I am sure I wiĺl have plenty more questions once I have VFP 9 up and running. I started off many years ago with dbase III+ and then Foxpro. I notice that my profile suggests I am a Technical User rather than a Programmer, is there anything I can do to change this?

Regards,
David

 

[Mike Lewis]

I don't think there is any way of changing that particular piece of information (someone will correct me if I am wrong). But what you can do is go to My Stuff / My Profile, and then scroll down to "Tell Other Members About Yourself?". There, you can enter or edit a short description of yourself, you role, your work, etc.

On the same page, you can set up a signature which tells the world who you are what you do. There are some rules about what you can and can't put in the signature, but these are quite reasonable.

Mike

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