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Visual FoxPro
All of our development is done in Visual Foxpo.

What was once a user’s desktop database package has evolved into a significant player in the large scale database arena, positioned by Microsoft as their front-end to SQLServer as their answer to PowerBuilder and Oracle. By using Visual Foxpro (incorporating a commercial framework and third-party add-ins as appropriate) we can develop entire systems quickly and economically. The resulting systems are fast, easy to operate, and require no special hardware or file server administration yet offer more robustness and security than the current user-oriented packages.
When more power in the back-end is crucial, we match our Foxpro front-end with a SQLServer back-end.
 

Visual Maxframe Professional
Key to any developer's productivity is a commercial framework. VMP provides us the freedom to focus on our clients' needs because it takes care of
  • the underlying format and functions,
  • the administrative chores that are so much a part of any system, including security,
  • and much of the back-end data-handling.

Second Person Plural Ltd. has been a beta-tester for VMP since version 3.0

 

Stonefield Database Toolkit
Visual Foxpro comes with much of what is required to effectively manage your database, but Stonefield's internationally acclaimed product makes it easier than ever. We include SDT in all of our products to ensure database integrity, provide for database management, and speed our development effort.

 

Steven Black's INTL Toolkit
All of our applications are INTL-enabled, to make translation of screen captions and messages a breeze.

 

FoxAudit
Where full transaction logging and audit trail support is required, with roll-forward and roll-back capabilities, we trust the robustness of FoxAudit from Takenote Software.

 

Chado Spelling Checker
For a spelling checker that brings the power of word processing into the database world, we rely on Chado Software's SpellText.

 

Web Enabling
Our web interfaces are built quickly and expertly using the best tools available: WestWind's WebConnect framework and VooDoo controls

 

Other Resources
The Fox community is known for its openness and sharing. Discussion boards like the Universal Thread, VMP Developer Discussion Board and WestWinds Discussion Board all contribute to our success. The downloads freely available to developers from these sources number in the thousands,

 

Keeping Current

It is not enough to have the right tools, keeping abreast of the latest developments in approaches and philosophies is vital to development that succeeds. Conference attendance and journal subscriptions play a major role in keeping up with ideas.

 

Great Lakes Great Data Base Workshop

 

FoxTeach: The Visual Foxpro Developers' Conference

 

FoxTalk
 
FoxProAdvisor
 

 

 
   
 
   
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