Friday, August 27, 2010

Microsoft Visual FoxPro

I've been using VFP for about ten years since I made the painful jump from FoxPro DOS. Recently, I ported an app online with West Wind Web Connection. It was a bewildering experience and I have no desire to support .NET.

I say leave web programming to PHP and MySQL. Microsoft's WebMatrix and LightSwitch for Silverlight are targetted at small business developers like me, but I'm not having it. With VFP, I can still walk in with a canned system with user accounts and start designing files in a few hours. It's more robust than Access and a whole lot less fuss than SQL Server.

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