Hi Paul,
You missed Eric's SWFox presentation. You can have VFP 9 SP 2, VFP Advanced, and VFP Advanced 64bit running on the same machine. Eric didn't say you needed to change anything. Here did have both VFP 9 and Advanced running at the same time.
Tracy
On November 21, 2019 5:09:27 PM EST, "Paul H. Tarver" paul@tpcqpc.com wrote:
This is going to seem like a stupid question I'm sure but is there a way to run VFPA (either 32 or 64 bit) in parallel with VFP9?
I'd like to test, but I don't want to mess up my existing development environment. Some of the readme files seem to indicate the answer is no.
Paul H. Tarver
-----Original Message----- From: ProfoxTech [mailto:profoxtech-bounces@leafe.com] On Behalf Of Eric Selje Sent: Thursday, November 21, 2019 3:35 PM To: profoxtech@leafe.com Subject: Re: VFP Advanced (was Fwd: RE: Fatal error issuing CALCULATE command)
The Microsoft of 20 years ago probably would have complained, but they're a different company now. Their take is basically "If you want to modify the copy of VFP that you paid for, go for it."
VERSION() either returns 10, or not. Almost all of the changes he implemented can be turned off with settings for maximum backwards compatibility.
On Thu, Nov 21, 2019 at 2:07 PM MB Software Solutions, LLC < mbsoftwaresolutions@mbsoftwaresolutions.com> wrote:
On 11/21/2019 2:54 PM, Eric Selje wrote:
VFP 10 (or VFP Advanced) is a copy of your licensed copy of VFP9,
with
some
binary patches to fix bugs and add features. There's *also* a
64-bit
version.
Yes, I use it every day, along with 1000's of others. My opinion is
that
there's no reason every VFP developer should not.
Eric
I was surprised that M$ didn't send out a "cease and desist" or some such action for it. Morally and ethically, there's nothing wrong
with
it from what I can tell, but you recall the HUGE STINK they put up
when
Whil Hentzen was going to show VFP running on WINE. I can't see the harm in that either, for that matter. If that increases M$'s VFP
sales,
GREAT! (Yes, that's laughable to say...cue the quote by BG about
every
time VFP was sold, they lost $20,000 or something on SQL Server
sales.)
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