Dear experts,
I am working on a restaurant ordering system with VFP+MSDE and looking for the possibility to input order via a mobile device.
Is there any tool like VFP for Pocket PC Or any suggestion to which language should I used at the mobile side for a shortest learning curve
Someone show me with a terminal client installed on Pocket PC, connect to Small Business Server 2003 and run a VFP exe (re-write with large icon and less color ). This sounds cool but the PCs in the restaurant are just XP home, any suggestion
Thank you in advance.
VFP & Pocket PC
Charlie Calvert MSFT
Get PocketDos then run Foxpro for DOS on it...
That the shortest learning curve... Is it the way to go That’s up to you; personally I’d take the opportunity to learn JAVA.
Dave
Randy Brown
I'm using "CodeBase" as VFP database driver.
Works great. You can copy DBF (FPT) files from /to the PDA and use all data you want.
You can use Index and filtering.
Probably you've write a wrapper with VFP look -a-like commands !
But it works very well !!!!!!!!!
Hristo Ivanov
There are no VFP runtimes that run on WinCE (Pocket PC).
You could do one of many possibilities. You could run VFP through Terminal Services, you could move your data through HTTP and Web Services, you could use a 3rd party app or you could use the .NET Compact Framework and program it in C# or VB.NET or similar.
charlycmx
IMHO Java is the best option. I wouldn’t touch .Net with 10 foot pole.
You are just waiting to have to rewrite all you code with the next release of WinCS (and probably .Net). It’s already been replaced Origami. Dose WinCS code run on Origami I don’t know, but my guess: No.
To add insult to injury Origami was all top secret till two days ago…. That’s Microsoft.
pier!
Cut and pasted from the article..
"Microsoft spent over a year and a half working on the specialized ultramobile OS, a company representative said, ensuring it would enable touch screen work, as include support for buttons on the right and left sides of the ultramobile’s screen. The OS also retains capabilities already built into the tablet edition of Windows, such as the ability to take notes right on the screen."Its an OS.
Dave
Robert R. Richter
No, this is incorrect. And the very first sentence in the article you linked says so.
Ultramobile PC's will run Windows XP. That's the only OS mentioned in the announcement.
New_to_Vb_studio
One thing you might consider looking into is a ThirdParty product called Satellite Forms. It's reported to be designed to interact with VFP and Mobile/Palm devices. I've not had the opportunity to use it myself, but I understand that it's one of the few tools out there for doing mobils with VFP.
-mont
Abhilash Vantaram
>IMHO Java is the best option.
Your opinion. It is one of the options indeed.
>I wouldn’t touch .Net with 10 foot pole.
Your opinion. Baseless until you back it up with some valid tech reasons.
>You are just waiting to have to rewrite all you code with the next release of WinCS (and probably .Net).
Where do you get that idea from Sources .NET runs in Windows XP, 2000, 2003, Vista, and also WinCE.
>It’s already been replaced Origami.
What The PDA That's way in the future - maybe. Or are you thinking of the TabletPC That one runs WinXP nor WinCE.
>Dose WinCS code run on Origami I don’t know, but my guess: No.
There is no such thing as WinCS AFAIK. Maybe you mean WinCE It runs WinXP for the moment. It is still a proof of concept with a long way to go to see if it is accepted by the market or not.
>To add insult to injury Origami was all top secret till two days ago…. That’s Microsoft.
And your point is They made a marketing decision to create some hoopla before the unveiling at CeBIT in Hanover this week. So The device has just been announced. Nobody I know, nor you, has even seen one, let alone learn about its capabilities or shortcomings in full yet.
As a Software Developer I try not to deal with Marketing as much as possible nor care. I work on current OS and attempt to learn what's coming (e.g. Windows Vista) to be ahead of the curve. As of today, Origami is nothing more than a toy to me. Until it is seen if the market likes it, what mainstream hardware manufacturers jump on board, what features will it finally offer, etc. I could care less. (not to mention pricing that early on seems to be too expensive).
This thread's question is about using VFP or similar in a PDA. You want to start a thread discussing Origami, or your likle/dislike of Microsoft marketing strategies, be my guest, but let's answer this thread's question for what it is.
amirtharajs
Origami IS NOT a device it’s an OS.
Because of all the secrecy people speculated that it was a device, but Microsoft unveiled it at as OS. (And Its an OS based on XP not CE)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/macworld/20060309/tc_macworld/umpc20060309_1
This must be taken into consideration when programming for mobile devices, No one knows the future of CE.
Thais is my point: Microsoft makes it imposable to plan 2 years in advance, and CE is just the latest example.
I apologize for the negativity I brought to this board. You are right this thread doesn’t belong here.
Dave