Peter,

Upgrade from 7 to 9 is virtually painless as long as you obey a few simple guidelines which I did when I ran the upgrade. You have my phone number, just ring me if you have any problems.

XFRX is great for producing reports in various formats, Stonefield is fantastic at framework management etc but I would steer clear of Crystal. I have every version since 8.5, including the latest version and it is 1 - bloatware, 2 - difficult to use if you aren't prepared to use visual studio to drive it and 3 - slow!!

Also it doesn't really fit right with ODBC data which is what you have to use to access the VFP files. If you are using SQL server then it is much better. All the documentation written regarding VFP and Crystal (Hentzenwerke http://www.hentzenwerke.com/catalog/crysdev.htm ) was written for versions 8 and 9 and it is a completely different beast now, anyhow I don't think you can even buy the old versions any more. I have the books if you want to browse them.

Dave

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From: profox-bounces@leafe.com [mailto:profox-bounces@leafe.com] On Behalf Of Peter Cushing

Sent: 08 February 2012 17:15

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Subject: Buy VFP 9 plus alternative reporters.

Hi All,

Been working happily with VFP7 for years and not found a reason to upgrade. Now need to do a report with multiple detail bands so the new reporter looks ideal. Just checking out versions of VFP9 and the upgrade version is cheaper, but come across conflicting information about which version you can upgrade from. Just want to check if anyone here has upgraded from a version before 8.

While I am looking at this I might as well look into alternative reporters like:

- Stonefield query

- Crystal reports

- XFRX

etc

Any recommendations or comments on the above?

Thanks,

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* Peter Cushing *

IT development and support

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