Wow!Earlier this week Windows Vista™, our flagship, was released worldwide. http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/windowsvista/default.mspx. This is the most significant product launch. With this release comes a new, powerful platform for developers to build powerful applications using a host of technologies.
Check out the Windows Vista Developer Center on MSDN for more information, including overviews, how-to articles and webcasts as well as the Windows 3.0 SDK.
Running Visual FoxPro on Vista The Visual FoxPro QA team has been testing VFP with Vista since the early stages of the release. During this process we did uncover some issues that have since been fixed in Vista and VFP. The following summary outlines the results of final tests on Vista.
Tests included: - Setup – Clean Vista installation
- Setup – Vista upgraded from XP
- Design time and runtime automated tests and some ad-hoc manual tests
Version | Number of tests | Passing rate | VFP9 SP1 | ~17,000 | 100% | VFP9.0 | ~17,000 | 100% | VFP8 | ~11,000 | ~99.5% (59 failed) |
Visual FoxPro 9.0 and SP1 are fully compatible with Vista. We have uncovered a few issues with VFP8 and we are reviewing those. However, given that support for Visual FoxPro 8 expires in April 2008, we strongly recommend upgrading to Visual FoxPro 9.0 SP1.
Sedna and Vista We are working on the next Community Technology Preview of Sedna. This will include a preview of SP2, fixes and minor updates to previously previewed Sedna components and a COM library that will expose some of the Windows Presentation Framework features – namely the Task dialogs and Common dialogs.
Milind Lele
Program Manager
VS Pro Data
Milind.Lele@microsoft.com
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