Visual Basic Vs. Visual FoxPro

[cedx]

Hi,

Have anyone here used Visual FoxPro before? I would like to know how it measures up to Visual Basic.

Thanks in advance.

[Wen Lie]

I think, VB is better than Visual Foxpro...
But, each of them has its own characteristic.
There is some function, only in foxpro,
but, there is some function only in VB...
So, I say, both of them has their own characteristic.

But, globally, VB is better than Foxpro,
and more flexible than Vis Foxpro...

Cheers,
Wen Lie

[jbart]

I used FoxPro for 6 years and have been using VB 6.0 for about 8 months.

VB has much more support available and where I live is a much more marketable skill than Visual FoxPro. It is also extremely hard to find any training for FoxPro. The rumors keep flying that Microsoft is going to abandon it, but so far those are just rumors. I feel that there is an un-due prejudice against FoxPro, because it has a great development environment.

Some of the objects in VFP, such as textboxes and buttons, have more properties that you can change. You can easily change the color of the text for a command button, where in VB the font color for a button is not a property that you can change. You also have control over the color of disabled objects in VFP.

If you are fairly proficient with VB, you could pick up VFP in no time at all. The IDE is different, but similar enough. VFP does not require as many dll's as VB since FoxPro has a lot more built into it.

I have found that the Data Environment in VB is easier to use than the one in FoxPro, and if there is something you need to do you can usually find a good example in numerous places on the web.

Oh, and the built in report designer in VFP is excellent. No need to use Crystal Reports.

[Edited by jbart on 10-12-2000 at 08:47 AM]