Hey there Amy!

I was VERY Surprised to see your reply!!!

Not only cause I have been a Member of this group for YEARS now - but,

will honestly say - I've seen very, VERY Few women in this group!!!

So - If you're a Newbie to the Group - CONGRATS for finding this group of

Decrepitly Old Programmers like me!

If you're NOT New - then this reply makes me seem like an Arse...

But, either way - yeah - I am Stoked to see your message - I'm Glad you

like what I am sharing here!

Will admit one final thing about this all...

And - I have spoken about this with my 2 main coworkers. But, truthfully -

Claude has allowed me to produce a TON of CODE (seriously - it's a TON -

and Functional) - without the DEEP Knowledge of programming in C# and

without even the full knowledge of doing development in VisualStudio. And,

now - based upon a TON of the work I did to build an Entire Process - now -

based upon the prior work - So, literally about 30-45 min prep work for the

screen - Claude reading FoxPro code - finding all the DBF files as prep -

and other stuff - then I fed all that - others screens as a reference - an

MD Doc with my "Vision" process - then, the final step - tell it to build

the screen - and the actual building - and producing a XAML layout QUITE

Close to the FoxPro layout - but, with our proper Styles for our C# Screens

- like fonts, sizes, even Grid styles - and Boom - the screen was Runable

in like 3 min after the initial prep work.

AI has become a GAME Changer. And - they have been trying to convert OUT of

FoxPro for like 10-12 years - initially to PHP - But, hit many Walls - then

totally changed to now doing C# (which started before I got to the Company)

- and, now I have the chance to EXTREMELY Accelerate the Conversion

process! It kinda Blows My Mind!!! And - it kinda makes ME look like the

Hero - and Who does NOT want to be the IT Super-P Hero!?!?!?

-Kurt

On Fri, Aug 28, 2026 at 5:31 PM Amy King <amyk@baldwingroup.com> wrote:

> Kurt -

> This is excellent news! I'd like to follow your progress as this is

> something I have been contemplating for several months now.

>

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> -----Original Message-----

> From: Kurt Wendt <kurthwendt@gmail.com>

> Sent: Thursday, August 27, 2026 6:53 PM

> To: ProFox Email List <profox@leafe.com>

> Subject: FoxPro Conversion Astonishment!

>

> As many of you know - I have been DEEPLY involved with using AI for Coding

> Efforts - largely for conversions from FoxPro to C#. But, also - for some

> FoxPro code updates - and even using Claude to help me solve code problems

> - even at times data problems.

>

> Yes - it's been a while since I last posted...

>

> Yes - it's been INSANELY Quiet the last few months here on the ProFox

> List...

>

> But, something fun occurred today - that I felt I really wanted to chat

> here

> about!

>

> First - as you folks probably already know - the CEO of the co. where I

> work

> - agreed to get an Annual Claude AI Subscrip for me and my Manager - after

> I

> did the initial testing to prove how Claude could be Helpful.

>

> Since then - I have been plowing thru things with Claude...

>

> Then - a couple weeks ago - my manager sent an email to my programming

> co-worker, as in, the CEO approved for him to get Claude. Although - at the

> time - my co-worker was in Thailand on vacation. So - he got back mid-last

> week, and saw the email. Then - like 2 days ago - he got his subscription

> to

> Claude. I had some Serious chats with him - then also discussed a LOT about

> how I work with Claude - what I feed him - to do the Screen conversions.

> And, he started using Claude to finish the Dev work on a Very complicated

> C# screen. He was Immediately getting BLOWN Away by what Claude could do.

> And - yeah - he is using Claude Code & the Desktop App - so it can Directly

> Read and Manipulate code.

>

> Well, today - I got back to work on this one screen conversion for Cust

> Order Maint. I previously did the project prep work - Flattened the FoxPro

> screen code - had Claude read it - find all the DBF's - update a FoxPro

> program to open them all - then list out ALL DBF files to a status file -

> DBF and each Index (List Status) - and all structures (yeah - separate

> commands).

>

> And, I already gave Claude my documentation for the Vision Process - where

> it can SEE what it produces via a C# screen - to understand the FoxPro

> screen layout - and convert it into a Viable C# screen.

>

> So - based upon Everything I gave it - I said - here is the Flattened

> FoxPro

> code for the screen. Produce the XAML code - and Bare min. C# code behind -

> just enough so it can run! Claude did it. And, before I ran it for the VERY

> First time - I brought up the actual FoxPro screen, via our system

> - with an actual data record - and have that window on my 2nd screen. I

> told

> my co-worker to come over - I wanted to show him something - I said -

> Claude

> just created the screen with what I gave him - I am about to Run that new

> screen!

>

> It worked - Screen layout was VERY Close to the FoxPro screen layout -

> which

> was running on my second monitor. The new screen also has ALL our Standard

> C# control Styles applied!

>

> He was BLOWN AWAY! He was like - WOW - that right there would have taken me

> TWO Weeks to develop in C# - and, we are talking Just laying out the

> Controls - NO Date wiring involved yet!

>

> So - Bottomline - it was SUPER FUN to watch his shock at what I showed

> him!!!

>

> OK folks - Carry On...

>

> -Kurt

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