Visual FoxPro
Visual FoxPro is a programming language that was developed by Microsoft. It is a data-centric and procedural programming language with object-oriented programming (OOP) features.
Visual FoxPro v9 running on Windows XP | |
| Developer(s) | Microsoft |
|---|---|
| Final release | v9.0 SP2
/ October 16, 2007 |
| Operating system | Windows 2000, Windows XP, and Windows Server 2003 |
| Platform | IA-32 |
| Available in | IDE: English, German, Spanish Runtime: Above plus French, Chinese, Russian, Czech, Korean |
| Type | Integrated development environment, programming language |
| License | Commercial proprietary software |
| Website | msdn |
It was derived from FoxPro (originally known as FoxBASE) which was developed by Fox Software beginning in 1984. Fox Technologies merged with Microsoft in 1992, after which the software acquired further features and the prefix "Visual". FoxPro 2.6 worked on Mac OS, DOS, Windows, and Unix.
Visual FoxPro 3.0, the first "Visual" version, reduced platform support to only Mac and Windows, and later versions 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9 were Windows-only. The current version of Visual FoxPro is COM-based and Microsoft has stated that they do not intend to create a Microsoft .NET version.
Version 9.0, released in December 2004 and updated in October 2007 with the SP2 patch, was the final version of the product. Support ended in January 2010 and extended support in January 2015.