Name: Visual FoxPro (Discontinued)
Rating: 8 (13 reviews)
Author: Discontinued Products

Help Desk

Web and Video Conferencing

Customer Support

Augmented Reality Development

Chatbot

Flowchart

Development

Business Intelligence (BI)

Collaboration

Meeting Management

Enterprise

Accounting

Accounting and Tax Services

Budgeting and Forecasting

Crypto Accounting

Tax Compliance

Finance and Accounting

Applicant Tracking

Corporate Learning Management

HR Management

International Payroll

Payroll

Succession Planning

Talent Intelligence

Talent Management

Workforce Analytics

Workforce Management

Human Resources

.Net Development

Blade Servers

Change Management

Cloud Data Warehouse

Cloud Storage

Continuous Delivery

Data Fabric

Data Pipeline

Data Quality

Fraud Detection

IT Service Providers

Identity Verification

Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS)

Interoperability

Managed File Transfer (MFT)

Managed Print

Network Performance Monitoring

Network Traffic Analysis (NTA)

Office Migration and Repair

Remote Desktop

Software-Defined WAN

Telecom Expense Management (TEM)

Test Management

User Activity Monitoring

Virtual Private Network (VPN)

Information Technology

A/B Testing

Ad Serving & Retargeting

All-in-One Marketing

Call Tracking

Content Management

Digital Experience Intelligence

Email Marketing

Enterprise Marketing Management

Local Marketing

Marketing Automation

Marketing OS

Presentation

Social Media Management

Survey & Forms Building

Web Analytics

Wholesale Marketplace

Marketing

Project Management

Transcription

Wireframing

Professional Services

Customer Relationship Management (CRM)

Proposal

Revenue Operations

Sales

Automotive

Awards Management

Construction Accounting

Oil and Gas

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FoxPro is a programming language and DBMS formerly supported by Microsoft, now at its End of Life.

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An Integrated Development Environment (IDE) is software consisting of a range of development tools (e.g. a source code editor, a debugger) presented in a graphical user interface (GUI), thus forming a comprehensive programming environment packaged as a software application.

Integrated Development Environment (IDE)

Likelihood to Recommend

Usability

Support Rating

Discontinued Products

CEO (Chief Executive Officer)

Visual FoxPro (Discontinued) 2020-11-13 09:42:27

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User interface

Ios and android

Windows 10

Look and feel

Little dated

Error handling

Application development

Easy access

3rd party

3rd party plugins

Access data

Third parties

Easy to create

Home

Integrated Development Environment (IDE) Software

We are using FoxPro for few customers. There are still many businesses that are using VFP although Microsoft stopped supporting it years ago. Many legacy applications, particularly BFSI, Healthcare, Real Estate, are running on Visual FoxPro. These software applications and products are being used by hundreds of businesses, that are now so much hooked to VFP, that they do not want to switch to newer technologies. As a result, there are a wide range of companies across market segments that need constant support to their VFP products. 

We at Apptread (an ImpactQA company) have helped several customers in maintaining their legacy applications on FoxPro. So much so that we even automated the regression suite making rolling out new features, easy. 

There are not too many developers today that are willing to work on VFP but there are still a bunch of companies that are keeping the VFP developers engaged. Some customers have started moving their VFP applications to .NET but that would also need an understanding of VFP code. As a result folks with good VFP and .NET experience are most sought after programmers. 

VFP has many advantages over other new age tech. Looks like VFP may not have a great future but it is certainly here to stay for few more years. It would be too early to write it off.

Structured language easy access to database.
Access to VFP programmers.
3rd party plugins and wizards available that help in application development.

Moving to iOS and Android is not possible.
Support from Microsoft.

We were able to provide VFP services to several customers.
It’s a technology that is still being used by many Fortune 1000 and 500 companies hence we see a good ROI.

We use FoxPro to support Sage Pro customers, Accountmate customers, and customers who have custom foxpro applications either built by us or by other people. Our whole organization uses FoxPro. It serves the purpose of application development, database frontend to SQL and Access, and a report generation tool. We write, develop, maintain, and support FoxPro for businesses ranging from very small to hundreds of millions of dollars per year.

It is very fast to access data in SQL, Access, and other ODBC languages.
It has a lot of great code examples available on the web for free.
It has a lot of wizards to aid in application development, both from Microsoft and from third parties.
It is a structured language, so supportable code is fairly easy to create.
There are still a lot of FoxPro experts available to call on if needed.

Microsoft stopped selling this and stopped supporting it in 2014. It still works on Windows 10, but if you have a problem, you are on your own.
The look and feel of screens and displayed text is getting a little dated.
It's really designed for desktop/server environments rather than the cloud.

Positive impact is that the value of FoxPro applications has continued to increase over the years, so we are in high demand for our services.
Negative impact is that sometimes you have difficult to support scenarios where you might have to spend many hours to just keep something functional.
A negative impact is that this language is taught in very few places, either in schools, or private learning centers.

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FoxPro is used to develop a plug-in for our stock management software.

We are using FoxPro because that is the only way to add custom plugins in the software we use to manage our stock.
So, FoxPro is suitable for this need.
We are developing software in c# .NET, compared to this, FoxPro is clearly out-dated.

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Pass data to one form to another
Error handling

Visual FoxPro (Discontinued)

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