shall I purchase Visual Fox Pro 9 ?

Hi there.

I have considerable background in Visual dBase Plus which is an OO language with considerable means to create forms, tables and some windows applications but it is hard to do any networking. Thus I am trying to migrate to C#. I do have a Visual Studio .NET 2003 Pro and downloaded Visual C# 2005 Express Edition Beta 2. I have created some forms and added some functionality. Now I need to create tables and I need a table designer which I found to be a part of SQL server. It appears I have downloaded SQL Server but it is not working for some reason and I have to find out why.

My question is: shall I just purchase a FoxPro 9 package in addition to what I've got already It is about $650 at MS. It will definitely give me a lot of options I think.

Won't it be an overkill Can I accomplish everything I need with what I've got already

As a prior purchaser of Visual Studio .NET 2003 will I qualify for an upgrade on Visual FoxPro which is about half the price

Thanks.

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shall I purchase Visual Fox Pro 9 ?

mistercain
Thanks for reply.

I do have MSDN Professional but not Enterprise. I am getting DVDs with SQL Server 2005 Beta versions and this is where I installed it from. So far it refused to work but I will analyze why and perhaps reinstall it.

Since you seem to be knowledgeable in the matter I have another question.

What is the advantage of having FoxPro in some abstract sense What additional capabilities would I get should I decide to acquire it. I am just curious. I am having a self imposed crash course of studying the whole MSDN and ASP.NET business -- I need it badly, so your reply will help.

Thanks.
SAAM
VFP 9 just for table design would be overkill. However, based on the products you are using/needing, I would recommend you get MSDN Professional level It could be cheaper than getting all that separately.

If you are not needing to purchase any additional software, download and install SQL Server 2005 Express as well as the Express Manager from http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/express/sql/. Use the Express Manager for your database development.

This is a technology preview version. The final version release is scheduled for November (I think) and will be free.
22fox
Many thanks for pointing out to me what is going on in my own backyard. Isn't it amazing. I do have a Visual FoxPro 9.0 (English) March 2005 DVD with the product key printed on the face of it.

You saved me 650 bucks at least and perhaps more.

MS has sent so many DVDs to me lately that I've lost track of many of them.

Thanks again.
Ade S. Miller - MSFT
If you have MSDN PRo, then you should have a DVD with VFP. One strength of VFP would be its data handling capabilities both natively (DBFs) and remote (e.g., SQL Server, Oracle). String parsing is also a strong suit. Rather than try to list its strong points, I'll just refer you to:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/vfoxpro/productinfo/
shall I purchase Visual Fox Pro 9 ?

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