Hello, I'm Tracy

Tracy-P · Post by **Tracy-P** » Tue Nov 19, 2019 5:19 pm

I've been writing VFP code for over 20 years.
I work full time where I maintain and add new features on a production product written in VFP 9.
We are in the process of finding a new code base to work with.

Tracy

Chris · Post by **Chris** » Tue Nov 19, 2019 10:13 pm

Hello Tracy and welcome to X#! Exciting times should be ahead in the next months!

FoxProMatt · Post by **FoxProMatt** » Wed Nov 20, 2019 10:24 am

Hi Tracy. Welcome to X#. It's still early in X#.VFP, so you're getting in at the ground level.

Have downloaded and installed X# yet?

lumberjack · Post by **lumberjack** » Wed Nov 20, 2019 10:47 am

Hi Tracy,

Tracy-P wrote:I've been writing VFP code for over 20 years.
I work full time where I maintain and add new features on a production product written in VFP 9.
We are in the process of finding a new code base to work with.

Welcome, start small with your new code base and play with a mix of VFP and X# style...

Terry · Post by **Terry** » Wed Nov 20, 2019 12:31 pm

Hi Tracy

> We are in the process of finding a new code base to work with.

Just in case you are deliberating on this issue, FWIW I do not think there will be and easier or quicker forward path for you to follow than that offered by XSharp.

The reason for saying this is that XSharp development is driven by a Development Team that, several years ago now, before the .NET era, had the foresight to split computer memory management away from application logic, meaning that the former could be handled entirely automatically.

The result, Visual Objects, was a very easy to use development language. It was ahead of anything that Microsoft had published that I had read at the time (though I've no doubt they were thinking internally along the same lines).

XSharp brings together what could be described as "an amalgamated VO/.NET language" with ease of use and integrity of managed code, together with an almost automatic stepping stone into a broad range of future technologies / technological complexities.

Just my view as a C# developer.

Terry

FFF · Post by **FFF** » Wed Nov 20, 2019 2:36 pm

Terry wrote: ..XSharp development is driven by a Development Team that, several years ago now, before the .NET era, had the foresight to split computer memory management away from application logic, meaning that the former could be handled entirely automatically.
The result, Visual Objects..

While we are in nostalgic mode, i'd like to add two little corrections.
"Several years" is indeed about 25 years back (shudder).
And: The "VO" devs where, IIRC, Ralph Saboroswki, Ansgar Trimborn, Uwe Holz and Fru N'denge. That was quite some time before we knew anything about the existance of Robert, Chris & Fabrice (sorry, Nikos, you are too young) :whistle:

Karl-Heinz · Post by **Karl-Heinz** » Wed Nov 20, 2019 4:53 pm

fasten your seatbelts please

Here's another nostalgic journey back to the past, explaining the upcoming VO 1.0 disaster..:woohoo:

https://bit.ly/331LgVJ

regards
Karl-Heinz

Chris · Post by **Chris** » Wed Nov 20, 2019 5:48 pm

Hi Karl,

FFF wrote:While we are in nostalgic mode, i'd like to add two little corrections.
"Several years" is indeed about 25 years back (shudder).
And: The "VO" devs where, IIRC, Ralph Saboroswki, Ansgar Trimborn, Uwe Holz and Fru N'denge. That was quite some time before we knew anything about the existance of Robert, Chris & Fabrice (sorry, Nikos, you are too young) :whistle:

Actually he's just 4 months younger than me

We both started with Clipper during our first uni years in 1995, I later remained in xBase with VO, but he had instead moved to other projects with Delphi, so he's the prodigal son

lumberjack · Post by **lumberjack** » Thu Nov 21, 2019 5:06 am

Chris wrote: but he had instead moved to other projects with Delphi, so he's the prodigal son

Good to know, so we can expect next year a Delphi.XBase.NET compiler?

Main menu