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Microsoft halts FoxPro
Microsoft halts FoxPro
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Microsoft will not be releasing a successor to its Visual FoxPro 9 developer tool, the company said this week.
The company will continue to support Visual FoxPro 9 through 2015 and will release Service Pack 2 for the product this summer, featuring enhancements in reporting and bug fixes. But there will be no version 10, Microsoft said on its MSDN (Microsoft Developer Network) site.
The company is, however, working on a project codenamed Sedna that is built using the extensibility model of Visual FoxPro 9 and provides features such as enhanced connectivity to SQL Server and integration with parts of the .Net Framework.
Microsoft said the community has been using the company’s CodePlex open source project site to enhance Visual FoxPro with improvements such as an object-oriented menu system and an enhanced class browser.
“To reiterate, today we are announcing that we are not planning on releasing a VFP 10 and will be releasing the completed Sedna work on CodePlex at no charge. The components written as part of Sedna will be placed in the community for further enhancement as part of our shared source initiative. You can expect to see the Sedna code on CodePlex sometime before the end of summer 2007,” Microsoft said.
Visual FoxPro has been geared toward making 32-bit database applications and components. In recent years, the company has been emphasizing its Visual Studio development environment.
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