> I have a lot of Foxpro data and code and wonder
> if there's some way I can put Foxpro data on the phone and write and run
> code to access it.
Since we clarified you neither can run your VFP code, nor use VFP data with browsers or native apps on Phone 8, the wish to access your data remains, as you say: "be able to access it, or at least to some extent, as needed/desired"
You would now need to think about how much time you want to invest to convert your data and write some new code in C# or Javascript/HTML/CSS to something stored and running on the phone directly or instead use an easier migration path to a web solution based on vfp code and data. That'll make migration much easier, but surely you also don't just put your EXE on the web. It also has the one main disadvantage: Only being available online.
Marco suggests another solution in using a browser embedded standard of SQLite, but that needs support from the browser. Also look at the header of the blog article:
Please note: This article was written in May 2010 and as of November 18, 2010, the Web Applications Working Group has reached an impasse and does not intend to maintain the Web SQL Database any longer.
Another downside is, it's not working with IE, also not on Win8.1 with IE11. Also not on a Lumia520. So you would need to install another browser to go that route. And even if some browsers will continue support, it's not in the W3C standard anymore, other local storage engines still exist, but are rather not working with SQL queries, as SQLite. That's the sad side in regard to browsers and local data.
Two other local data storages are currently active:
and
But both are less powerful than SQLite, and even SQLite is already a weak SQL database.
I'd rather look out for the apps you need and want to use on your smartphone and see if you can feed them with your data officially, meaning not by hacking into their setup or installation directory, but by using some API, perhaps, or sharing files, they support.
I already suggested PDFs, PDFs apps have search capabilities, so you could output data in reports to PDFs and use them on the phone for lists to search through. Just one very simple and easy solution just needing a VFP report and preparing PDFs for the phone.
Nokia Phones com with HERE Maps and you can register and put customer addresses as favorites into your HERE/Nokia account for yourself and then use these adresses/markers on the phone. Just another example.
You can already do much without developing for the phone directly, but using already existing apps. Smartphones don't just exist since a few days, so there already is a lot you can use right away.
What to look for then is not how you get your data and code on the phone, but what data you can put into what online accounts for phone apps or websites to use on the phone. Of course that has it's disadvantages in the privacy of your data. But suggested you want to develop an app to find a route to a customer on nokia or bing maps, you'd at least give your address data to Nokia MS on a one by one basis.
Bye, Olaf.