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In March 2007,
Microsoft announced that there will be no VFP 10, thus
making VFP9 (released to manufacturing on December 17, 2004) the
last commercial VFP release from Microsoft. The support of
Version 9 is ongoing with service packs that were released
December 8, 2005 and October 11, 2007.
At the time of the end of life announcement, work on the next
release codenamed Sedna (named after a recently discovered dwarf
planet) which was built on top of the VFP9 codebase had already
begun.
"Sedna" is a set
of add-ons to VFP 9.0 of XBase components to support a number of
interoperability scenarios with various Microsoft technologies
including SQL Server 2005, .NET Framework, Windows Vista, Office
2007, Windows Search and Team Foundation Server (TFS).
Microsoft released
Sedna under the Shared source license on the CodePlex site.
Microsoft has clarified that the VFP core will still remain
closed source. Sedna was released on January 25, 2008. As of
March 2008, all XBase components of the VFP 9 SP2 (including
Sedna) were available for community-development on the
CodePlex.
Microsoft® Visual
FoxPro® database development system is a powerful tool for quickly
creating high-performance desktop, rich client, distributed
client, client/server, and Web database applications. Employ its
powerful data engine to manage large volumes of data, its
object-oriented programming to reuse components across
applications, its XML Web services features for distributed
applications, and its built-in XML support to quickly manipulate
data.
Visual FoxPro
(VFP) is a programming package sold by Microsoft. It
contains a programming language, a database engine and an
integrated development environment (IDE).
Visual FoxPro
is a data-centric object-oriented and procedural programming
language produced by Microsoft. It is derived from FoxPro
(originally known as FoxBASE) which was developed by Fox Software
beginning in 1984. Fox Technologies merged with Microsoft in 1992
and the software acquired further features and the prefix
"Visual".
FoxPro originated as a member of the class of languages
commonly referred to as "xBase" languages, which have syntax based
on the dBase programming language. Other members of the xBase
language family include Clipper and Recital. (A history of the
early years of xBase can be found in the dBASE entry.)
Visual FoxPro, commonly abbreviated as VFP, is tightly
integrated with its own relational database engine, which extends
FoxPro's xBase capabilities to support SQL query and data
manipulation. Unlike most database management systems, Visual
FoxPro is a full-featured, dynamic programming language that does
not require the use of an additional general-purpose programming
environment. It can be used to write not just traditional "fat
client" applications, but also middleware and web applications.
Learning Visual FoxPro
