Upgrade from FPW 2.6 to VFP Questions

[kelunaboy]

I am the lone Progammer/Network Admin at a small goverment agency with a custom FPW 2.6 application. The actual source for the compliled .exe is lost but I do have a "version" of the source to work from. After nearly a year of documenting the undocumented database structure and writing small programs that operate on the orignal database I am ready to proceed with a complete rewrite over the next year. My questions relate to what version of VFP would be best.

1) Does VPF 8 come with written documentation, or does it only have online docs? Are there any good development and language reference books for VFP 8?

2) Can I still compile to a single .exe and distribute that to my users, as I can with the FPW 2.6 license and dev kit I have now?

3) Is it possibile to have both FPW 2.6 and VFP 8 accessing the same tables, or is there a conversion process that alters the table format?

4) Can VPF 8 do any server side processing?

5) Arem there any known problems between VFP 8 and Citrix MetaFrame?

Thanks in advance

 

[JRB-Bldr]

While a number of the people here are familiar with both FP and VFP, you might be best served by posting your primarily VFP question on the VFP forum forum184

Good Luck,


JRB-Bldr
VisionQuest Consulting
Business Analyst & CIO Consulting Services
CIOServices@yahoo.com

 

[kelunaboy]

Point well taken and my question is now cross posted.