Sad

[Toms Ng]

I live in Hong Kong.
The most popular language there is VB.
The VF is not popular there .
Sometimes i am very sad that should i need to change to be a VB programmer.
I know that VF is as powerful as VB if you use it deeply.
Can someone tell me
is there still a developing space for VF.
Some of my workmates say that VF is easily to develop,
but i know that VF is quiet difficult if use it under OOP .
am i right

Toms

[Ellick]

Hi, Toms

I fully understand how you feel about Visual FoxPro in Hong Kong because
I also live in there. You are right, VB is a very popular development tool
in SME client/server environment. It provides a easy way to develop user
interface. On the other hand, I found VB is lack of some powerful data manipulation
features, when data come in the way, it has to depend on Access or other
database engine such as SQL Server. I'm a VFP developer for almost 4 years,
I enjoy its powerful database engine and data manipulateion functions. It
allows me to develop some nice applications without the worry of ODBC concerns
and it works very well under both file server and client/server environment.
I developed a lot of file server appications for small business and they
love it because its speed and they don't have to pay for some expensive SQL
server's Cleint Access License. There are still rooms for VFP in small buiness
sector. Of course, VFP is also a ideal tool to develop client/server application,
but this will depend on how Microsoft promotes VFP in the market place.



"Toms Ng" <Toms@Magic.com.hk> wrote:
>
>I live in Hong Kong.
>The most popular language there is VB.
>The VF is not popular there .
>Sometimes i am very sad that should i need to change to be a VB programmer.
>I know that VF is as powerful as VB if you use it deeply.
>Can someone tell me
>is there still a developing space for VF.
>Some of my workmates say that VF is easily to develop,
>but i know that VF is quiet difficult if use it under OOP .
>am i right
>
>Toms
>

[Nick]

Hi Ellick,

I agree with you in your last statement that "VFP is also a ideal tool to
develop client/server application, but this will depend on how Microsoft
promotes VFP in the market place." I live in the Philippines and most prgrammer
here are developing applications using VB. Most of my friends are VB programmer.
I'm not an experienced foxpro programmer but I love it very much because
of it's power in manipulating databases. I guess it doesn't matter of who's
hot but what's the best. The progress of VF is all in microsoft's hand.

regards
Nick




"Ellick" <ellickyg@netvigator.com> wrote:
>
>Hi, Toms
>
>I fully understand how you feel about Visual FoxPro in Hong Kong because
>I also live in there. You are right, VB is a very popular development tool
>in SME client/server environment. It provides a easy way to develop user
>interface. On the other hand, I found VB is lack of some powerful data
manipulation
>features, when data come in the way, it has to depend on Access or other
>database engine such as SQL Server. I'm a VFP developer for almost 4 years,
>I enjoy its powerful database engine and data manipulateion functions.
It
>allows me to develop some nice applications without the worry of ODBC concerns
>and it works very well under both file server and client/server environment.
> I developed a lot of file server appications for small business and they
>love it because its speed and they don't have to pay for some expensive
SQL
>server's Cleint Access License. There are still rooms for VFP in small
buiness
>sector. Of course, VFP is also a ideal tool to develop client/server application,
>but this will depend on how Microsoft promotes VFP in the market place.

>
>
>
>"Toms Ng" <Toms@Magic.com.hk> wrote:
>>
>>I live in Hong Kong.
>>The most popular language there is VB.
>>The VF is not popular there .
>>Sometimes i am very sad that should i need to change to be a VB programmer.
>>I know that VF is as powerful as VB if you use it deeply.
>>Can someone tell me
>>is there still a developing space for VF.
>>Some of my workmates say that VF is easily to develop,
>>but i know that VF is quiet difficult if use it under OOP .
>>am i right
>>
>>Toms
>>
>