"Are You More than Your Language?" (Article: David Stevenson)

by David Stevenson

Highlights:

The Visual FoxPro Toolkit for .NET, released recently on the GotDotNet website, is a collection of over 200 commands and functions that are effectively added to your .NET language of choice just by referencing the VFPToolkitNET.dll, which is written in managed .NET code and does not require a VFP runtime.

"Why would I want any Visual FoxPro code in my .NET application?" you might ask. The answer is simple: productivity.

The Toolkit contains some incredibly useful functions from VFP that are not native to .NET, such as STREXTRACT, which can save you lines and lines of code when you need to pull text out from between two user-defined delimiter strings, such as you might face in a screen-scraping scenario. Another example is STRTOFILE, which converts a string into a file in just one line of code. You can find the toolkit freely available for download at www.gotdotnet.com/team/vfp.