Visual FoxPro 9.0, the latest update to a database technology Microsoft acquired in 1992, is generally available this week and will be supported through 2014. Visual FoxPro, which can be used to ...

Despite a concerted online effort by devoted Visual FoxPro developers, Microsoft Corp. said late last week that it won’t change its plan to halt work on the venerable database programming tool. In a ...

The flood of interest in .NET accompanying the release of Windows Server 2003 might tend to obscure recent improvements in Visual FoxPro. With the release of Version 8.0, Microsoft said that it is not ...

Microsoft Corp. announced last month that it would stop developing its Visual FoxPro database and development tool after releasing one last service pack update. But some FoxPro supporters are waging ...

Microsoft's forgotten product will get a new breath of life with the news that a new version of the Visual FoxPro database has been released to manufacturing. Although Big Green paid big bucks for the ...

Editors' Note: This article has been updated with an addendum since its original posting. It started out in an unassuming manner: an industrious developer, Paul McNett, had a growing interest in Linux ...

Greetings,<P>I have a client who has FoxPro version 2.6 (IIRC), DOS based, and needs something more modern to read, and possibly edit the .DBF files it creates.<P>I thought that MS bought foxpro and ...

Microsoft released 11 security updates Tuesday fixing critical flaws in its products, including a publicly known ActiveX bug that affects users of the Visual FoxPro database. In total, 17 individual ...

When you're developing a data-centric application, you have a lot of choices just at the database level: SQL Server, Azure Table Storage, DocumentDB, MongoDB, … the list goes on . Having tools in your ...

Whether you're building an application database or generating data access code, we've got a round-up of tools to make the job easier. Today you have so many choices when you're developing a ...