It has been fairly quiet on the "Release" front since last Summer.
That does not mean that we have been doing nothing. On the contrary
We are working day and night to prepare the X# 3 release that will support the next version of Dot Net  (.Net 10 and further) and also current and future versions of Visual Studio.
The support for the new SDK style projects inside Visual Studio has proven to be more complicated than we liked / hoped.
Some of you have already tested X# with the new Visual Studio 2026 and discovered that most of it works as expected. However, there are a few issues with this new version.

If you are a subscriber and find a problem with X# 2, then please contact us with a bug report. We will try to resolve the problem and will send you (an) updated DLL(s). We do NOT plan to release a new installer with a new version of X# 2. 

We expect to release the first beta of X# 3 in the first quarter of 2026. As you can imagine, we want to show it at our Summit in February 2026 as well. Maybe not the release version, but at least a very mature beta version.

We have published the preliminary list of speakers, sessions and session schedule for the XSharp Summit in Potsdam, February 2026.

You find the information here

What is not on the list is a session by Peter Conrad from COMSys. He will demonstrate the tool that his company has created to help convert Visual FoxPro applications from Visual FoxPro to X#.
This will probably be part of the Freak Night sessions.

 

 

Fabrice Foray Summary
It's Time to RESTful With XSharp

REST is one of the underlying architectural way to exchange data of the web or with mobile applications.
On the web, clients and servers can interact in complex ways without the client knowing anything about the server and the resources it hosts.
Nowadays, it is common to exchange data and the great thing is REST makes use of the standard HTTP methods to expose your DataModel, so it is available everywhere.
First, we will explain some basics of RESTful APIs, and what we have to provide in order to create our own Server.
Then, we will use XSharp to create that Server, and use some test-tools like Postman or those available in MS Visual Studio.
As XSharp has access to our DBFs Data, let's create a model based on the Record Structure and make it available through REST.
Now that our legacy Data are open to the Web, let's access it with new technologies !
Stefan Hirsch
Creating a Webserver and using Scripting with X#
Nikos Kokkalis
Chasing performance in the world of dotNET.
Peter Monadjemi  
Vibe Coding and Sofware Quality The world of software development is constantly changing. The introduction of AI assistant has accelerated the speed of which these changes occur rapidly. New AI tools are announced on a weekly basis, and it sometimes seems that the traditional “coding” became old-fashioned, like vinyl records or VHS tapes.
Although that’s definitely not the case, there can be no doubt that software development in the year 2026 is radical different from software development a few years ago. Development with X# is no exception.
One of the new term developers talk a lot about worldwide is called Vibe Coding.
Vibe Coding means writing code in a way that keeps you in the flow: fast feedback loops, readable structures, clear naming, and a development rhythm that makes daily work more enjoyable. Surprisingly, X# offers a lot of opportunities to code with a great vibe, especially for developers coming from Visual Objects or another xBase language.
The development is done with Visual Studio but with the help of an AI assistant like *CoPilot*. But it does not have to be *ChatGPT* or another commercial LLM. It can be a LLM that runs locally as well.
And in contrary to some believes, Vibe Coding is not a concept for writing programs from scratch with no or little intent to actually code. It’s also very well suited for improving existing code, no matter how old it is.
Through practical examples, small patterns, and a live refactoring demo, we’ll explore how to make X# code easier to understand, maintain, and extend — without adding unnecessary complexity.
This session is for developers who want their code to be not only correct, but also pleasant — code they’re happy to return to weeks or years later.
Basile Mellac
Read/Write to your tables with typed Linq queries and typed POCO objects
Chris Pyrgas  
XSharp Advanced Tips and Tricks
Wolfgang Riedmann  
a WPF framework to build WPF applications in X#, using MVVM and databinding
Robert van der Hulst  
Move your apps from .Net Framework to .Net Next

XSharp 3 comes with support for .Net 8,9,10 and for the new SDK projects that are needed to build these apps with MsBuild
In this session, Robert will take some existing .Net Framework apps and will convert them to .Net 10.
Topics shown are:
- Migrating the project files
- Changes needed in the source code
- Advantages of the migration
- Problems that may occur.

Opening Session & Closing Session

  
   

 

Holger

Speaker Bio

Fabrice Foray

After a first encounter with personal computing and a Tandy TRS-80 in the early 80's, it was the use of Clipper 86 that led Fabrice to xBase languages. He has been teaching computer science in France for more than 30 years, especially with C++, Java and C# languages, and at the same time he continued the xBase adventure with CA-Visual Objects, Vulcan.Net and finally XSharp!
   
Stefan Hirsch will follow shortly
   

Nikos Kokkalis

 Nikos Kokkalis started programming at an early age as a hobby. He studied Computer Engineering at the Demo-critus University of Thrace, where he also earned his doctorate. He has been a freelance software developer since 1996, with periods of employment in between. From 1996 to 2004 he worked for Anadelta Software on business software and road construction CAD. From 2009 to 2022 he worked as an embedded software and digital signal processing engineer at Intracom Telecom. From 2011 to 2015, Nikos was also a member of the GrafX development team. Since September 2015, he has been a member of the XSharp development team, mainly working on the compiler, macro compiler and database engine. Since 2023 he is a software engineer at Arista Networks.
   
Basile Mellac will follow shortly
   
   Peter Monadjemi Peter started his professional career first as a book author in 1988 before becoming a professional developer. He already started programming in the 70s. Like probably everybody at that time, he used BASIC, then Assembler, later Forth and a few other languages he can't remember anymore. He regrets that he ignored VO in the 90s and instead tried to convince everybody that Visual Basic is the best invention since sliced bread. He started using X# in the late 00s when he became a member of the EurekaFach team. He is convinced that X# is the best language for developing business application for the .Net Framework. He even wrote a book about X# in 2023.
   
Chris Pyrgas Chris Pyrgas started programming at the age of 12, and after several years of developing small games, utilities and real-time graphics presentations (together with Nikos Kokkalis) using Basic, Pascal and assembly language, Chris started his professional career at 20 in 1996, developing business applications in Clipper and Visual Objects, as a member of Anadelta Software in Greece.
In the early stages of the .Net Framework (v1.0), Chris also got involved with the CULE.Net project, in which he developed "CulEdit", the first version of the IDE that later became VIDE and is now XIDE. Later, he got involved with Vulcan.NET and became a member of the development team. In the last 8 years, Chris has been a full-time member of the X# development team, working mainly on XIDE, the VOXporter, the VO-compatible binary editors, the X# runtime, quality assurance, testing and customer support.
   
 Wolfgang Riedmann Wolfgang Riedmann is the founder of the small software house Riedmann GmbH in Meran, South Tyrol, Italy, specialized in individual software development. After working in Cobol on a mainframe, he started to work in Clipper and then in VO, starting with the long-awaited prerelease.
When X# was presented, he put the first small applications written in this language in production, and today, more than the half of its work time is done in X# using XIDE. Wolfgang also wrote some articles in the Software Development Techniques journal, and spoke on some previous VO and X# conferences.
Living in Italy, but with German as his native language, Wolfgang has connection in both the German and the Italian X# and VO community.
   
Irwin Rodriguez Irwin Rodriguez is a software developer with 17 years of experience in Visual FoxPro, where he specialized in creating developer-focused tools and libraries. In the last three years, he transitioned to X# .NET, evolving his tooling ecosystem with projects such as FoxCore, FoxPilot and FoxServer, which significantly enhance FoxPro development workflows. Since the introduction of ChatGPT in 2022, he has been an early adopter of AI-assisted programming, and in recent years he has focused on bringing his libraries to life by integrating AI through APIs into both FoxPro and X# applications. Irwin is an active member of the X# development team and serves as the official X# ambassador for Spain and Latin America.
   

Robert van der Hulst

 Robert van der Hulst (The Netherlands) has been part of the IT industry since the 80's. He started developing applications in DOS with dBase, Clipper and FoxBase, C and Assembler. Later, he developed applications for Windows and .Net with C/C++, Visual Objects, Vulcan .Net, Visual FoxPro, and C#.
Robert has created several third-party components for Visual Objects and Vulcan developers and has been part of the Visual Objects and Vulcan.Net development team, where he worked on the compiler, IDE, runtime and RDD systems.
In 2015, Robert founded the XSharp (X#) Project, together with Fabrice Foray (France), Nikos Kokkalis (Greece) and Chris Pyrgas (Greece). They were all col-leagues from the former Vulcan.Net development team who decided there was a need for an open-source implementation of XBase for .Net.

Sunday, February 15
20:00 - 22:00 Welcome Reception
 

Monday, February 16
 
09:00-09:15 Welcome & Opening
X# Development Team
09:15-10:30 Session 1
10:30-10:45 Break
10:45-12:00 Session 2
12:00-12:15 Break
12:15-13:30 Session 3
13:30-14:30 Lunch
14:30-15:45 Session 4
15:45-16:00 Break
16:00-17:15 Session 5
17:15-18:30 Break
18:30-20:00 Dinner
20:00-... Freak Night
   
 

Tuesday, February 17
09:00-10:15 Session 6
10:15-10:30 Break
10:30-11:45 Session 7
11:45-12:00 Break
12:00-13:15 Session 8
13:15 13:30 Closing session
X# Development Team
13:30-14:30 Lunch
afternoon Free for informal meetings
18:00-23:00 Speakers Diner, including remaining guests
   

The end of the "early bird" discount for registrations for the X# Summit in Potsdam, February 2026 is approaching.
If you book before Dec 1st, then you pay €600 (FOX subscribers €500). After that the price will go up with €100.
We are also finalizing the list of speakers and subjects for the event. More information will follow in the coming weeks.

For more info, see https://www.xsharp.eu/articles/x-summit-potsdam-feb-15-17-2026.

We are very happy that we can introduce to you our new development team member: Irwin Rodriguez.
Irwin comes from Spain and has a lot of experience with Visual FoxPro. He has also worked with X# in the last years and has written several add-ins for both XIDE and the Visual FoxPro IDE.

His main tasks in the development team will be to help improve our support for the FoxPro dialect.
He will also help in the translation of our documentation to Spanish and will help in creating Video material introducing X# to Spanish developers.

Of course, Irwin will also be joining us at the X# Summit in Potsdam, where he will be doing a session about adding AI to your application.

Irwin will further introduce himself with a forum message.

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