The Upgrade Trail from Visual FoxPro to Silverlight is Getting Blazed
Posted by Eric in C#, Database, FoxPro, Other, Web on 23. Aug, 2010 | 1 Comment
If you’re interested in upgrading to Silverlight, Southwest Fox Conference is the place to go.
On VFP and MySql ConnectionStrings
Posted by Eric in Database, FoxPro on 30. Nov, 2009 | 5 Comments
I’ve begun doing some preliminary data warehousing of VFP data into MySql in order to test the speed, similar to what I did a few posts back with Advantage Database Server. Since MySql can’t just use VFP tables the way Advantage can, I created a script to manually load the already extracted and transformed data [...]
Results of In-Depth Testing of Visual Foxpro vs. Advantage Database Server
Posted by Eric in Database, FoxPro on 19. Nov, 2009 | 4 Comments
I was able to spend quite a bit of time configuring a copy of Advantage Database Server (ADS), and then running a series of tests to compare its performance against native Visual Foxpro (VFP). For the ADS, I created a new database on the server and pointed it at a folder of VFP tables. I [...]