Visual Foxpro Database Software
- Software Overview. Microsoft Visual FoxPro is a program specializing in database management. It creates database applications for desktop and the Web and develops database solutions compatible with.NET technology utilizing its own programming language.
- Important download details: Installing the Microsoft OLE DB Provider for Visual FoxPro 8.0 on a computer that has a previous version of the Provider causes this version to replace the previous version. If you wish to preserve the previous version of the Provider, you must rename it before proceeding with this installation.
Visual FoxPro database or a directory of free tables FoxPro 2.0, 2.5, 2.6 table The Visual FoxPro ODBC Driver supports double-byte character sets (DBCS). For more information, see International Support.
FoxPro was a text-basedprocedurally orientedprogramming language and database management system (DBMS), and it is also an object-oriented programming language, originally published by Fox Software and later by Microsoft, for MS-DOS, Windows, Macintosh, and UNIX. The final published release of FoxPro was 2.6. Development continued under the Visual FoxPro label, which in turn was discontinued in 2007.
FoxPro was derived from FoxBase (Fox Software, Perrysburg, Ohio), which was in turn derived from dBase III (Ashton-Tate) and dBase II. dBase II was the first commercial version of a database program written by Wayne Ratliff, called Vulcan, running on CP/M.
FoxPro is both a DBMS and a relational database management system (RDBMS), since it extensively supports multiple relationships between multiple DBF files (tables). However it lacks transactional processing.
After they acquired Fox Software in its entirety in 1992, FoxPro was sold and supported by Microsoft. At that time there was an active worldwide community of FoxPro users and programmers. FoxPro 2.6 for UNIX (FPU26) has even been successfully installed on Linux and FreeBSD using the Intel Binary Compatibility Standard (ibcs2) support library.
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Operating system compatibility[edit]
| Version | FP 2.0 | FP 2.5 | FP 2.6 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MS-DOS | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Windows 3.1 to XP | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Macintosh | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| SCO UNIX | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Linux & FreeBSD | Yes | Yes | Yes[1] |
| Windows 2000 | No | No | Yes |
Technical aspects[edit]
Visual Foxpro Database Windows 10
FoxPro 2 included the 'Rushmore' optimizing engine, which used indices to accelerate data retrieval and updating. Rushmore technology examined every