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wOOdy -- Charlie had responded to your answer on my 64-bit thread. What do you think?
On 4/16/2020 2:50 PM, Charlie Coleman wrote:
Quick question. Are you all saying there is no Automation available to MS Office products in the 64-bit world?
I recently wrote a quick VFP app to 'automate' Outlook (ref: createobject('outlook.application')) to generate and send a bunch of emails. The Outlook 365 was 64-bit (I think). Are you saying I would not have been able to do that if I would have used the 'VFP 10' runtimes, etc? I understand ActiveX/FLLs that were compiled 32-bit would be an issue - if they did not have a 64-bit version included.
-Charlie
On Thu, Apr 16, 2020 at 1:30 PM MB Software Solutions, LLC < mbsoftwaresolutions@mbsoftwaresolutions.com> wrote:
Ah yes, the automation angle. Temporarily forgot about that. Thanks, wOOdy!
On 4/16/2020 1:24 PM, Jürgen Wondzinski wrote:
You are correct, there is no reason to have a 64bit FoxPro application
for a regular Desktop app. It is different for building the middle-tier of a distributed app or a Webserver extension. But on a regular desktop you gain nothing, but inherit a lot of problems: No support for regular 32bit ActiveX or FLL components. No COM-control of Office or other 32Bit stuff.
Thus you better use the 32Bit version of VFPA, which is really highly
recommended, since it cures a lot of old bugs.
wOOdy
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I finally I downloaded the VFPA runtime files and am going to use that
IDE and develop/deploy with this "VFP 10" version since many here have spoken of it without much negativity.
Question: what would be the benefit of using the 64-bit version IF I'M
NOT USING DBFS (because in my MBSS apps, I use MariaDB/MySQL as the backend, not VFP). I just don't see the benefit other than for marketing my apps to say "they're 64-bit using the VC++ 10 runtimes."
tia, --Mike
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