| Developers: | Microsoft |
| Last Release Date: | October 11, 2007 |
| Technology: | DBMS |
Visual FoxPro (VFP) is the object-oriented and procedural language of programming of relational database management systems developed by Microsoft corporation. The FoxPro programming language formed a basis for this software product. Treats to family of the XBase languages developed based on a language syntax of programming of dBase. Other members of this family are Clipper and Recital.
Originally FoxPro (the initial name — FoxBASE) developed Fox Software, since 1984. In 1992 Fox Technologies was purchased by Microsoft, new versions of a product considerably changed and purchased a prefix of "Visual". The latest version of original FoxPro — version 2.6 — worked under Mac OS X, DOS, Windows and Unix; already in the version of Visual FoxPro 3.0 from MS the list of supported platforms was reduced to Mac OS X and Windows, and in later versions from MS — already only to Windows. The current version of MS Visual FoxPro is based on COM, and Microsoft claims that the .NET-version of a product will not be. There is a Sedna project which should provide a possibility of interaction of Visual FoxPro with .NET.
Compatibility with operating systems
| + The supported versions of Windows | ||||||
| Version
!VFP 3.0 !VFP 5.0 !VFP 6.0 !VFP 7.0 !VFP 8.0 !VFP 9.0 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Windows 3.x | Yes | No | No | No | No | No |
| Windows NT 4.0 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No |
| Windows 95 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Only the environment of start (runtime) | No | No |
| Windows 98 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Only the environment of start (Runtime) | Only the environment of start (Runtime) |
| Windows ME | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Only the environment of start (Runtime) | Only the environment of start (Runtime) |
| Windows 2000 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Windows XP | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Windows Server 2003 | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Windows Vista | In the compatibility mode | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Windows 7 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Important facts
Product development of MS is stopped with SP2 exit for version 9.0, support of the product MS will be performed till 2015
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