X# slowly invading VFP

lumberjack · Post by **lumberjack** » Wed May 01, 2019 1:03 pm

Well guys, as some of you might be aware, Matt Slay and I am working on a VFP helper to assist with migrating VFP to X# in support of the marvelous work the DevTeam is doing... One of the VFP forums (ProFox) send out a monthly stats report... We slowly moving to the number 1 position... For March the best ranking was at number 18...

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ProFox List Statistics
April 2019
Total Posts: 213
(Up 17.68% from March 2019)
Total [NF] Posts: 62
(Up 34.78% from March 2019)

Top 20 Contributors by Number of Non-OT Posts
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|    Posts   Contributor                       |
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  8.   10    Johan Nel 

Top 20 Contributors by Total Number of Posts
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|    Posts   Contributor                       |
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  1.   19    Ted Roche 
  2.   19    Alan Bourke 
  8.   10    Johan Nel 
  9.   10    Gene Wirchenko 
 10.    8    Paul Newton 

Top 18 Contributors by Number of New Threads Started
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|    Posts   Contributor                       |
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  1.    5    MB Software Solutions, LLC 
  2.    4    Ted Roche 
  3.    4    Johan Nel 
  8.    1    Matt Slay 

Top 20 Non-OT Threads by Total Number of Posts
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 16.    5    X# and scripting
 20.    3    X# announcement

Top 20 Threads by Total Number of Posts
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  1.   24    How best to do an audit trail of changes (EASILY WITHOUT THE NEED FOR A DBA)
 16.    5    X# and scripting
 20.    3    X# announcement

CharlieDenver · Post by **CharlieDenver** » Thu May 02, 2019 1:15 pm

Hi
I wondered if there was a forum topic to follow the progress that you and Matt are making with the helper
Phillip

lumberjack · Post by **lumberjack** » Thu May 02, 2019 2:32 pm

Hi Phillip,
It is Matt's call when he would share some of the work we doing. He is the VFP guru that should feel comfortable to make an announcement.

FoxProMatt · Post by **FoxProMatt** » Thu May 02, 2019 3:41 pm

It is Matt's call when he would share some of the work we doing. He is the VFP guru that should feel comfortable to make an announcement.

I am taking a very conservative position on communicating any claims or status of Johan and my work on X#.VFP app conversion efforts. There are some fundamental things in the X# Runtime Functions that need to be implemented so that broad coverage of even basic VFP language pieces can compile as-is without hand editing to X# syntax, and then the whole UI thing is still a great big unknown and has a very open-ended potential, of which I have only focused on one particular route at this time. X# Dev Team may go a whole different route, which would be fine with me, as I am confident that whatever they choose, they can deliver; of this I am certain, as these guys are super smart!

Further, we (Johan and me) are not a formal voice for X#, so, I will defer to the X# Dev Team to make any statements about the status of X#.VFP. Privately, in FOX forums, I may be a little more raw and open about our experiments, but not publicly, as I think it could lead to confusion on what X#.VFP will look like.