Despite a concerted online effort by devoted Visual FoxPro developers, Microsoft Corp. said late last week that it won’t change its plan to halt work on the venerable database programming tool. In a ...

® SQL Server (TM) and Visual Studio® product lines to include new tools for hobbyists, enthusiasts and students. The Express products offer lightweight, easy-to-use and easy-to-learn products that ...

The flood of interest in .NET accompanying the release of Windows Server 2003 might tend to obscure recent improvements in Visual FoxPro. With the release of Version 8.0, Microsoft said that it is not ...

Using SSDT means we don't just shout orders at the database; instead, we plan what we're going to say. For almost 13 years, Microsoft has tried to make Visual Studio a place where developers can do ...

FoxPro began as a clone of dBase II, which was once the dominant desktop database. But over the past 23 years, it has turned out to be much more than a mere clone. Microsoft bought FoxPro when the ...

Microsoft revealed the official names Monday of the next major upgrades to its Visual Studio software development tools platform and its SQL Server database, which will be called, simply, Visual ...

On Monday, Microsoft announced availability of the much-anticipated beta two version of Visual Studio 2005 and the .Net Compact Framework 2.0, as well as a community technology preview of SQL Server ...

Nope, VFP is the king of file-based portable applications on the Microsoft platform. I'll be digging into it in my spare time since some applications I support at my new position are written in it.