Greetings from Bulgaria!
Posted: Tue Dec 01, 2020 1:23 pm
Hello X# community!
My name is Dimitar. I'm developing web applications with Visual FoxPro and West Wind Web Connection for 15+ years already. Very interested in X# project - what you have done so far is incredible. Great work!
I'm entirely on VFP dialect (didn't even know VO, Clipper etc exists lol) and wanted to say hello and that I'll be watching the progress of X#. I'm currently working for a large international company with headquarter in US and our VFP code base is 20+ years old.
Having said I'm doing web development only, I'm not interested in any Desktop apps with VFP/X# so anything related to that I just ignore. I'm almost entirely focused on working with DBFs at present so I have some questions:
- is the speed of reading/writing to DBF files compatible to the speed of VFP?
- are you thinking about maintaining your own Unicode-enabled DBF files (even if they are not backwards compatible to VFP)
- is it possible to work with large tables (>2GB)
- is Rushmore optimization available in X#
- compatibility with all important string/date/time/number-related function in VFP including calculate, sum
- being able to create cursors/tables, apply plain indexes and indexes based on expressions
- being able to execute macro substitution (to some degree)
- full compatibility with SELECT... query statements with cursors and tables
- ability to reference managed and unmanaged DLLs
- what about web API apps with X#?
Thanks and happy coding!
Dimitar
My name is Dimitar. I'm developing web applications with Visual FoxPro and West Wind Web Connection for 15+ years already. Very interested in X# project - what you have done so far is incredible. Great work!
I'm entirely on VFP dialect (didn't even know VO, Clipper etc exists lol) and wanted to say hello and that I'll be watching the progress of X#. I'm currently working for a large international company with headquarter in US and our VFP code base is 20+ years old.
Having said I'm doing web development only, I'm not interested in any Desktop apps with VFP/X# so anything related to that I just ignore. I'm almost entirely focused on working with DBFs at present so I have some questions:
- is the speed of reading/writing to DBF files compatible to the speed of VFP?
- are you thinking about maintaining your own Unicode-enabled DBF files (even if they are not backwards compatible to VFP)
- is it possible to work with large tables (>2GB)
- is Rushmore optimization available in X#
- compatibility with all important string/date/time/number-related function in VFP including calculate, sum
- being able to create cursors/tables, apply plain indexes and indexes based on expressions
- being able to execute macro substitution (to some degree)
- full compatibility with SELECT... query statements with cursors and tables
- ability to reference managed and unmanaged DLLs
- what about web API apps with X#?
Thanks and happy coding!
Dimitar