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Visual Fox. Pro - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Visual Fox. Pro. Developer(s)Microsoft. Last releasev. 9. SP2[1] / October 1. Development status. Discontinued[3]Operating system.
Windows 2. 00. 0, Windows XP and Windows Server 2. Platform. IA- 3. 2[5]Available in. IDE: English, German, Spanish. Runtime: Above plus French, Chinese, Russian, Czech, Korean. Type. Integrated development environment, programming language. License. Commercialproprietary software.
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Websitemsdn. microsoft. Visual Fox. Pro is a data- centric, object- oriented, procedural, programming language produced by Microsoft. It is derived from Fox. Pro (originally known as Fox. BASE) which was developed by Fox Software beginning in 1. It contained the fastest PC- based database engine available at the time.
Fox Technologies merged with Microsoft in 1. Visual". The database engine became known as the Microsoft Jet Database Engine which was used by Microsoft Access. The last version, (Fox. Pro 2. 6) worked on Mac OS, DOS, Windows, and Unix: Visual Fox. Pro 3. 0, the first "Visual" version, reduced platform support to only Mac[6] and Windows, and later versions were Windows- only. The current version of Visual Fox.
Pro is COM- based and Microsoft has stated that they do not intend to create a Microsoft . NET version. Version 9. History[edit]Visual Fox. Pro originated as a member of the class of languages commonly referred to as "x. Base" languages, which have syntax based on the d. Base programming language.
Other members of the x. Base language family include Clipper and Recital. A history of the early years of x. Base can be found in the d.
Base article.)Visual Fox. Pro, commonly abbreviated as VFP, is tightly integrated with its own relational database engine, which extends Fox.
Pro's x. Base capabilities to support SQL query and data manipulation. Unlike most database management systems, Visual Fox. Pro is a full- featured, dynamic programming language that does not require the use of an additional general- purpose programming environment. It can be used to write not just traditional "fat client" applications, but also middleware and web applications.
In late 2. 00. 2, it was demonstrated that Visual Fox. Pro can run on Linux under the Wine Windows compatibility suite. In 2. 00. 3, this led to complaints by Microsoft: it was claimed that the deployment of runtime Fox.
Pro code on non- Windows machines violates the End User License Agreement.[7]Visual Fox. Pro had a rapid rise and fall in popularity as measured by the TIOBE Programming Community Index.[8] In December 2. VFP broke into the top 2. In June 2. 00. 6 it peaked at position 1.
B" language. By September 2. Fox. Pro and its variants had fallen out of the top 5.
In March 2. 00. 7, Microsoft announced that there will be no VFP 1. VFP9 (released to manufacturing on December 1. VFP release from Microsoft. The support of Version 9 is ongoing with service packs that were released December 8, 2. October 1. 1, 2. 00.
At the time of the end of life announcement, work on the next release codenamed Sedna (named after a recently discovered dwarf planet) which was built on top of the VFP9 codebase had already begun. Sedna" is a set of add- ons to VFP 9.
Base components to support a number of interoperability scenarios with various Microsoft technologies including SQL Server 2. NET Framework, Windows Vista, Office 2. Windows Search and Team Foundation Server (TFS). Microsoft released Sedna under the Shared source license on the Code. Plex site. Microsoft has clarified that the VFP core will still remain closed source. Sedna was released on January 2. As of March 2. 00.
Base components of the VFP 9 SP2 (including Sedna) were available for community- development on Code. Plex. In late March 2.
Spanish- speaking Fox. Pro community at Mas. Fox. Pro[1. 1] ("More. Fox. Pro" in English) to sign a petition to Microsoft to continue updating Visual Fox. Pro or release it to the community as Open Source.
On April 3, 2. 00. Also on April 3, 2.
Microsoft responded to the petitioner's requests with this statement from Alan Griver: [1. We're very aware of the Fox. Pro community and that played a large part in what we announced on March 1.
It's never an easy decision to announce that we're not going to release another version of a product and it's one that we consider very carefully."We're not announcing the end of Fox. Pro: Obviously, Fox.
Pro applications will continue to work. By some of our internal estimates, there are more applications running in Fox. Pro 2. 6 than there are in VFP and Fox. Pro 2. 6 hasn't been supported in many years. Visual Fox. Pro 9 will be supported by Microsoft through 2. For Microsoft to continue to evolve the Fox. Pro base, we would need to look at creating a 6.
We've also invested in creating a scalable database with SQL Server, including the freely available SQL Server Express Edition. As far as forming a partnership with a third- party is concerned, we've heard from a number of large Fox. Pro customers that this would make it impossible for them to continue to use Fox. Pro since it would no longer be from an approved vendor.
We felt that putting the environment into open source on Code. Plex, which balances the needs of both the community and the large customers, was the best path forward."Version Timeline[edit]All versions listed are for Windows.[1. Version. Release Date. Visual Fox. Pro 3. June 1. 99. 5Visual Fox.
Pro 5. 0. October 1. Visual Fox. Pro 5. October 1. 99. 7Visual Fox. Pro 6. 0. 18 May 1. Visual Fox. Pro 7.
June 2. 00. 1Visual Fox. Pro 8. 0. 1 February 2. Visual Fox. Pro 8. Service Pack 1. 7 October 2. Visual Fox. Pro 9. December 2. 00. 4Visual Fox. Pro 9 Service Pack 1.
December 2. 00. 5Visual Fox. Pro 9 Service Pack 2. October 2. 00. 7Code samples[edit]The Fox. Pro language contains commands quite similar to other programming languages such as Basic. Loops include do, if, while, for, else commands in a usage easily understood by anyone familiar with other programming languages. Commands take the form of "command" and "endcommand"Some basic syntax samples: FOR i = 1 to 1.
NEXT& & Instead of "NEXT" can also use "ENDFOR"IF i = 2. DO WHILE x < 5.
DO WHILE . T. x = x + 1. IF x < 5. 0. LOOPELSEEXITENDIFENDDOn. Month = MONTH(DATE()). CASE n. Month < = 3.
MESSAGEBOX("Q1"). CASE n. Month < = 6. MESSAGEBOX("Q2").
CASE n. Month < = 9. MESSAGEBOX("Q3"). OTHERWISEMESSAGEBOX("Q4"). ENDCASEFOR EACH o. Control IN THISFORM.
Controls. MESSAGEBOX(o. Control. Name). ENDFORf = Factorial(1. FUNCTION Factorial(n). LOCAL i, r & & It is conventional to use ln. I and ln. R for variables, rather than single digitsr = 1.
FOR i = n TO 1 STEP - 1. NEXT& & Can also use "ENDFOR" here instead of "NEXT"RETURN r. ENDFUNCHello World example: * Version 1: MESSAGEBOX("Hello World"). Hello World". Output of the Hello World program.
Form = CREATEOBJECT("Hi. Form"). DEFINE CLASS Hi. Form AS Form. Auto. Center = . T. Caption = "Hello, World"ADD OBJECT lbl. Hi as Label; WITH Caption = "Hello, World!"ENDDEFINElo. Mine = CREATEOBJECT("My. Class"). ? lo. Mine.
Prop. 1 & & This will work. Double- ampersand marks an end- of- line comment). Mine. c. Prop. 2 & & Program Error: Property CPROP2 is not found because it's hidden externally. Mine. My. Method. This will work. ? Mine. My. Method.
Program Error: Property MYMETHOD2 is not found because it's hidden externally. DEFINE CLASS My. Class AS Customc. Prop. 1 = "My Property"& & This is a public property. HIDDEN c. Prop. 2 & & This is a private (hidden) propertyd.
Prop. 3 = {} & & Another public property. PROCEDURE Init() & & Class constructor. This. c. Prop. 2 = "This is a hidden property."PROCEDURE d. Prop. 3_Access & & Property Getter. RETURNDATE(). PROCEDURE d. Prop. 3_Assign(v. New. Val) & & Property Setter uses the "_assign" tag on the property name.
IFVARTYPE(v. New. Val) = "D"THIS. d. Prop. 3 = v. New. Val. ENDIFPROCEDURE My.
Method. 1(). * This is a public method, calling a hidden method that returns* the value of a hidden property. RETURNThis. My. Method. HIDDEN PROCEDURE My. Method. 2() & & This is a private (hidden) method.
RETURNThis. c. Prop. ENDDEFINEVFP has an extensive library of predefined classes and visual objects which are accessed in the IDE by a Property Sheet (including Methods),[1. Data handling[edit]The language also has extensive database manipulation and indexing commands. The "help" index of commands in VFP 9 has several hundred commands and functions described. The examples below show how to code the creation and indexing of tables, however VFP has table and database builder screens which create the tables and indexes without making you write code. Output of the Data handling program.* Create a table. CREATE TABLE rand.
Data (i. Data I). Populate with random data using x. Base and SQL DML commands. FOR i = 1 TO 5. 0. APPEND BLANK. REPLACE i. Data WITH (RAND() * 1.
INSERT INTO rand. Data (i. Data) VALUES (RAND() * 1.
ENDFOR* Place a structural index on the data. INDEX ON i. Data TAG i. Data. * Display ordered data using x. Base- style commands. USE rand. Data. SET ORDER TO i.
Data. LIST NEXT 1. First 1. 0GO BOTTOM. LIST REST & & Last 1. CLOSE ALL. * Browse ordered data using SQL DML commands. SELECT * ; FROM rand.
Data ; ORDER BY i. Data DESCENDING. ODBC access using SQL passthrough[edit]PRIVATE c.
Author. ID, c. Author. Name & & Private variables supplant any previous global or private variable of the same name. LOCAL n. Hnd, n. Result & & Local variables are visible only here* Connect to an ODBC data sourcen. Hnd = SQLCONNECT ("ODBCDSN", "user", "pwd"). Enter a loop so we can exit to the close connection code if there's an error.
DO WHILE . T.* Execute a SQL commandn. Result = SQLEXEC (n. Hnd, "USE master"). IF n. Result < 0. MESSAGEBOX ("MASTER database does not exist!"). EXIT& & To close the connection.
ENDIF* Retrieve data from the remote server and stores it in a local data cursorn. Result = SQLEXEC (n.