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copied!<p>For ISV applications, VFP still has a development metric, when used with tools written in VFP for the purpose of large-system development, that is an order of magnitude better than other stuff available on the market. The company for which I work has created (and is selling very successfully) a retail inventory management system with some 450 tables and twice that many custom views, never having more than 3 FTE developers working on the product at a time. True, two of them have 10+ years experience in retail inventory software; and true, the other (me) specializes in the efficient use of metadata in the development and runtime process); but it's all VFP. Our application runs on fox dbf's, and also on SQL Server, same code.</p> <p>For the future, VFP is being ported to the CLR through two 3rd-party projects: the Guineu project (<a href="http://guineu.foxpert.com/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://guineu.foxpert.com/</a>), which takes compiled VFP code and translates to the CLR; and the VFP Compiler for .Net, which will have it's own VS-like environment (<a href="http://etecnologia.net" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://etecnologia.net</a>). The VFP Compiler for .Net also extends VFP in various useful ways. In addition, eTecnologia has a CLR Extender, which allows .Net calls directly from within VFP. If you want to get a headache playing with WCF, you can do it from within VFP. Both compiler projects have a way to go; and both of them have already done the hard parts.</p> <p>We see ourselves going the Silveright 2 route down the road not too far. Fortunately, all our business rules are in metadata, and converting them to a Windows Service (or, with the Compiler for .Net, a .Net service) will be exciting, but not daunting.</p>

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