Can you let me know where to go to enroll in ISV program, please?  Thanks,  Alex

Actually it does.  VS2005 will actually have a pretty long life since so many dramatic changes will exist in .NET 3.5.  Aside from that, there are migration or upgrade paths when purchasing 2005.  FYI, if you have an MSDN membership then you can download this for no additional cost.

StrataFrame will continue to evolve with the .NET platforms and future SF releases will support many of the new features such as WPF and LINQ.  As for the time frame, even the Orcas is a moving target at the moment, so I cannot tell you if these features will be available the day Orcas is released.

Date of purchase.

Hi Alex.

Have you considered purchasing an MSDN year subscription? I have enrolled in the ISV program, and that entitled us to pay US$ 560.00 for the VStudio and MSDN Premium. You get it all, except fot the Team System. Better than buying VS alone, and you don't need to worry about upgrades.

The latest version I have of VS is 2003   I uninstalled it a long time ago.

It doesn't seem to make sense to purchase VS2005 now since Orcas is around the corner.   Will Strataframe work with the Orcas beta while the product ships?  Also, do you start the year's worth of updates of Strataframe from the day of activation or the date of purchase?

Thank you,

Alex

The install requires a full version of Visual Studio to install.  The reason being that Microsoft has choosen to make the VS Express editions not support the full range of extensibility that the VS Standard, Pro, and Team Suite products do.  The Express editions do not support VsPackages and lots of macro and add-in stuff.  So, our extensibility doesn't work completely with it.  The Express editions are basically meant to allow you to "get your feet wet," but once you're in, if you want to work with just about any 3rd party tool, you'll have to spring for the full version of VS.

LOL IVAN, that made my day!

Keith Chisarik

ahaaa... so Ben and Trent are two personalities of the same person, Brent.

(I know, I know, silly... I promise to go back to my pills in a daily basis)

Brent, sorry to ask about this here, but don't know where else.  I don't have enough rights to edit a previous command entered by myself.

Thanks.  Alex

Oops... Is there any way to make Strataframe run with VB Express?  I do have full VS, but it is an older version.

Correct.

No.  This is when you would call a method that is within the DBC stored procedures.  A prg is not going to be accessible in this manner unless called through a VFP stored procedure.

There is really not much to show, bottom line is a procedure must exist within the DBC, for example let's assume that we have a procedure in the DBC named MyProcedure.  You would call it like this:

If it required parms, then you would pass the parms in the second parameter of the FillByStoredProcedure method or create a OleDbCommand with the parameters already set when called.

UDP is a networking protocol that allows a port to be occupied and listened on.  When we need to make two disparate EXEs or applications talk between each other, i.e. a VFP app talking to a .NET app, we create a UDP session within each application that can send and listen which allows us to communicate between the two apps.  You can reference the advanced sample that comes with the framework that shows how to run a VFP application within a .NET environment.

You do not want to do this....talking to a database will be slow, cumbersome, and open up a huge potential for failure at run-time.  This is why we use the UDP method.