Databases: FoxPro

FoxPro (Fox-pro) - one of the dialects of language xBase. It is used primarily for the development of relational databases, although it is possible to apply for development programs and other classes.

It is currently used in the development environment Microsoft Visual FoxPro.

Visual FoxPro (VFP) - visual development environment management systems relational databases, currently available from Microsoft. The latest version is 9.0. It uses programming language FoxPro. IDE version 7.0 can run on operating systems Windows 9x kernel and NT, version 8.0 and 9.0 - only in Windows XP, 2000, 2003 Runtime (runtime) versions 8.0 and 9.0 running under any version of Windows, from 98.

Initially, FoxPro (the original name - FoxBASE) designed Fox Software, since 1984. In 1992, Fox Technologies merged with Microsoft, the new version of the product have gained a number of new features and the prefix «Visual». The latest version of the original FoxPro - version 2.6 - worked under Mac OS, DOS, Windows, and Unix; in the version of Visual FoxPro 3.0 a list of supported platforms fell to Mac OS and Windows, and later versions - have only to Windows. The current version of Visual FoxPro based on COM, and Microsoft claims that .NET-version of the product will not be. There is a project Sedna, which should provide the opportunity to interact Visual FoxPro with .NET.