1. Visual FoxPro 8.0
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Title
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2. Agenda 2.0 10 Years of Visual FoxPro Road to VFP 8.0
Goals and overview of VFP 8.0
VFP 8.0 features and technology
Resources
Summary

3. 10 Years of Visual FoxPro
Eric Rudder, Sr VP, Developer and Platform Evangelism at Microsoft, has expressed Microsoft's thanks for the "Microsoft and FoxPro 10 Year Anniversary Card" sent to Microsoft.

5. Beyond VFP 8.0 …

6. Microsoft Executive Support for Visual FoxPro 8.0
VIDEO
Market Florist and Metropolis Shipping demo. Shows Web Forms and Web Services

7. Road to Visual FoxPro 8.0 Base it on wish list customer feedback
Add new runtime features - end users
Enhance SQL Server connectivity
Increase .NET interoperability
Maintain backward compatibility

8. VFP 8.0 Goals - Overview Provide a better Smart Client
Increased Windows Platform support
Improve Distributed Client (Web/COM)
More XML, .NET, SQL Server connectivity
Improve Developer Productivity
New base classes and error handling
Increase Discoverability
Better navigation and documentation

9. Visual FoxPro 8.0 and .NET Works well with Visual Studio .NET
Greatly enhanced XML support
XML Web services
ADO.NET
VFP OLE DB Provider
ASP.NET Web forms
.NET Windows forms
Visual FoxPro Toolkit for .NET
VFP and .NET teams working together

10. Productivity Enhancements
Taskpane
Toolbox
Empty class
AddProperty() and RemoveProperty()
Collection class
Structured Error Handling
TRY/CATCH/FINALLY
Event Binding
BINDEVENT() and RAISEEVENT()

11. Productivity Enhancements
Getfile() dialog
Auto-increment
Table designer
View Designer
Child member subclassing
VCX support for more classes
Many new features for Grid control
Code References tool
Stability is a feature!

12. New Report Writer Features
Page X of Y
Allow user to suppress printing dialog
Chain multiple reports as one print job
Print Page Header and Footer when Summary Band is on it's own page
Stretchable page Footer and Summary
Use DBC Field Caption Properties when dropping fields into a Report
Option for printer environment saving

13. XMLAdapter Class Beyond XMLToCursor/CursorToXML
Hierarchical XML support
Multiple VFP data cursors to XML
XML to multiple VFP data cursors
XML diff grams
VFP data cursors, tables, DBC
ADO.NET compatible
XMLTable and XMLField classes
Full control of XSD schema used

14. CursorAdapter Class Similar to DataAdapter in ADO.NET
ADO/OLEDB
ODBC
Native VFP cursors
XML and XML Web services
Programmable events
Stored procedures control

15. Object Methods/Events
CursorAdapter Class
Data Source
DBF
Remote Views
SQL PassThrough
VFP
Cursors
Native
SQL
VFP
Client
ODBC
DBF
CursorAdapter
Auto-Update
Object Methods/Events
Custom Commands
Stored Procedures
VFP
Cursors
Native
SQL
ADO/OLEDB
XML
HTTP

16. New Data Features DataEnvironment subclassing DataEnvironment Builder
CursorAdapter class
CursorAdapter Builder
XMLAdapter class
Form BindControls property
Enhanced VFP OLE DB Provider
VFP 8.0 and VS .NET interoperability

17. VFP 8.0 XML Web Services OLEDB ASP.NET WinForm Phone Pocket PC
Tablet PC

18. VFP 8.0 Performance
LOCAL a1[10000] x1=SECONDS() FOR i = 1 TO a1[i]=CREATEOBJECT("Custom") ENDFOR RELEASE a1 x2=SECONDS() ? x2-x1
VFP 7.0 = 24.5 seconds
VFP 8.0 = 0.45 seconds

19. Visual FoxPro 8.0 Features
Structured TRY/CATCH error handling
Windows XP Theme Support
Extended SQL Server connectivity
Expanded Visual Studio .NET compatibility
Hierarchical XML integration with VFP data
Enhanced XML Web services
Native VFP object event binding
Auto-increment support
View designer enhancements
New imaging support using GDI+
New base classes and subclassing
New features in form controls
More development productivity
Much, much more!

20. GotDotNet.com VFP Web Site
VFP 8.0 case study template download
Sr VP Eric Rudder on VFP 8.0 video
New VFP with VS .NET resource links
More updated content coming soon

21. Resources MSDN Subscriptions http://msdn.microsoft.com/vfoxpro

22. Summary & Call to Action
Educate and evangelize to others
Great new features in VFP 8.0
VFP 8.0 works great with SQL Server
VFP 8.0 works great with VS .NET
Upgrade applications for VFP 8.0
MSDN now, stand-alone mid-March
Submit VFP 8.0 case studies
Be active in the FoxPro community
Use and talk about VFP 8.0!!!