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 ...

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 announcement in March that it won't develop any more versions of Visual FoxPro (VFP) came as a surprise to almost no one -- particularly not those who had been paying attention since the ...

FoxPro began as a clone of dBase II, which was once the dominant desktop database. But over the past 23 years, it has turned out to be much more than a mere clone. Microsoft bought FoxPro when the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...