Mary Jo Foley covers VFP 9!. “On Microsoft Watch
today, Mary Jo Foley posted an update to an earlier article, talking
about Fox, its positioning within MS, and what its strengths are.” Link
via Garrett Fitzgerald’s Blog
Archive | June 5, 2004
DevEssentials 2004 Day One
Scott Ambler warmed up the crowd last night with a provocative keynote on agile development. No one was left unmoved.
Ken Levy did the keynote this morning showing off the new public beta
of Visual FoxPro 9. His presentation was a mixture of the keynote
previews he’s been doing for the last year, combined with full
disclosures on the new features, especially the report writer.
Here are a few bullet points:
– VFP 9 was based on customer wish list feedback.
– Primary goal to maintain backward compatibility.
– Enhanced language and data types
– Additional end user UI features
– Increased developer productivity
– Significant report writer enhancements
– Extended DotNet and SQL Server interoperability
– More reliability.
– Scheduled released is Q4 2004
Sessions going well. More notes as I have the chance.