'Europa' Beta Remodels Visual FoxPro

By David Worthington | Published June 7, 2004, 6:26 AM

Microsoft has breathed some life into its Visual FoxPro development suite. A public beta of "Europa," the next incarnation of FoxPro, is available for downloads as part of a public beta program. Thousands of existing FoxPro users will be able to upgrade and reap the benefits of a remodeled user interface, as well as IntelliSense support and other improvements. Europa is due out by the end of the year.

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VFP has had IntelliSense for several versions. It's improved in VFP 9.0. The biggest changes are a vastly overhauled reporting system. See http://msdn.microsoft.com/vfoxpro/letters/ for more info.

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Ahh yes, the little known hero of Microsoft. Well VFP 9.0 beta is awsome. Too bad MS doesent do more to market this development tool...its quite nice.

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