VFP programmers slow to move

Just found this at BrainBuzz:

Desktop Databases around the Web

The client-server world has been moving toward multi-tier architecture for

several years. Well, most of it. Visual FoxPro developers have been slow to

move in that direction.

VFP developers have favored single-tier applications, with all of the

programming language in one monolithic application. Heck, quite often,

nearly all of the logic sits behind a single form. VFP is also sometimes

used as a front-end for a SQL database.

FoxTalk newsletter has an article this month by Craig Berntson. He shows

readers how to leverage COM+ and become avant garde VFP programmers with

multi-tier FoxPro applications.

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Why don't they just say what they really think? For me, this is not true.

I've been "moving toward" multi-tier architecture for years, too. Talk about

an over generalization. In my opinion, we are the pioneers of nTier! I

like to steal the phrase from Intel and say that my apps are "nTier Inside"

as my layers are not always in different languages but inside VFP (and based

on VFE6, I might add, the first true nTier framework for VFP).

Nevertheless, I can still say it's nTier and I can still "break out" any

layer at any time into COM components if there were a need. Amazingly,

there hasn't been much need.

And, why are we being singled out as the "monolithic" group anyway. What

the @#$@#! do you call Access for crying out loud?!?!

Anyway, Craig's article is excellent, regardless of BrainBuzz's intro to it.

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