I recently completed building a
web site for a local company, Toney Bay Land Development Company - the web site is
www.sandpiperridge.com . What a beatiful area we live in! I have been to many places around North America and have seen some pretty spectacular scenery but when considered, none of it surpasses the scenery of this area.
I had the opportunity to revisit an old tool yesterday that I have not seen for some time. A customer had an application built with Visual FoxPro 3.0 in the mid 1990's (we are on version 9.0 now) and upon trying to re-install on a recently acquired system, he had problems! On a referral from the Microsoft Regional Director for Atlantic Canada, Derek Harchard, I was recruited to see what I could do leaning on my many years of Fox experience - I have been preaching to Derek the 'coolness' of Visual Fox (for certain projects) for some time now but he remains true to Visual Studio.NET.
Come to find that our possibilities were limited as the customer never insisted on getting the source code from the contractor and he has since moved on (get the source code!!!). The issue was based on the .exe file's reliance on the Visual FoxPro 3.0 library support files (vfp300.esl) - as a work around, I built a new project using Installshield X and included the required support files so they would get installed and registered on the destination system - success for the most part! The old application still was not happy running on one of the systems (Windows XP Pro on an IBM Z-Pro with Xeon Processors, SCSI drives etc) but would run well on a couple of his other work stations (Windows XP Pro with P-4 processors). It was alot of fun to revisit similar problems I faced 10 years ago and had long forgotten about.