Entity Developer vs. Visual FoxPro (Discontinued)

FoxPro is good for data manipulation from files. It is easy to generate/design reports of those data.

Incentivized

• Structured language easy access to database.
• Access to VFP programmers.
• 3rd party plugins and wizards available that help in application development.

• error handling
• User interface

Incentivized

There are several easy to use and powerful features of VFP that programmers like.

Although MS has discontinued support of VFP there is a good community of programmers that are available for help. In fact we have several programmers at Apptread that are skilled not only in VFP but also .NET so that if there is a need to migrate some parts of applications to .NET , it is easy for us to do that.

We use VFP because our customers are on VFP.

• Positive impact is that the value of FoxPro applications has continued to increase over the years, so we are in high demand for our services.
• Negative impact is that sometimes you have difficult to support scenarios where you might have to spend many hours to just keep something functional.
• A negative impact is that this language is taught in very few places, either in schools, or private learning centers.

Incentivized