Want to know if Visual FoxPro 9 will run on Windows 8? Well, find out below…
I downloaded the Windows 8 Developer Preview the first evening that Microsoft made it available to the public. I had watched the BUILD keynote during the first day of the conference on September 14, 2011, and I was impressed with most of what Microsoft has done on the developer platform for their new OS. So, sure, Windows 8 looks all cool and I am sure we’ll all have some fun building these new “Metro” style apps for it. I’m looking forward to it, just as I’ve looked forward to every new programming journey I’ve tackled lately, like learning C#, WPF, ASP.Net MVC, and Ruby on Rails. I love it all. Bring on more!
However, I am a long-time FoxPro developer, and I imagine I’ll still be developing and maintaining my primary corporate app in FoxPro for a few more years, so I wanted to make sure that Visual FoxPro 9 SP2 + HotFixes would install and run properly in Windows 8. Let’s see if it does (I’ll give you the answer now…. It does!)
According to http://fox.wikis.com/wc.dll?Wiki~CurrentVersion~SoftwareEng , the latest, fully patched version of Visual FoxPro 9 is 09.00.0000.7423.
So, the answer is YES, Visual FoxPro 9 SP2 works in Windows 8.
Now, I’m just waiting for the release of the “Metro for FoxPro” framework on VFPx. Anyone?
Anyone?
Give Craig Boyd a couple of days…
Good!!!!, Anyone know more about this FrameWork?
metro for fox Craig Boy-
Please, tell me more…..
Thank you for that!!
the best news I received today
And we’ll be glad to let you come over and demo all of this at the January AFUG meeting (first available, since we normally don’t do December)!
great news Matt thanks!
Only a good set of test will tell if VFP9 is fully compatible with Windows 8. Today VFP9 has just a few visual glitches with Windows 7, but it’s fully compatible (not having into account those functions that are not longer compatible with other apps like the append/import commands with office 2007′s excel files). A Metro framework for foxpro would be great. Maybe this is the last OS supporting Foxpro taking into account the support lifecycle ends at 2014.
thanks a lot. good news.
Good news, now I will consider to upgrade to windows 8!
I’m trying to get this to work myself – when I run it I get a c000005 error right after the splash screen – can you tell me the steps you did to install?
Thanks!
All I can tell you is that I installed the Developer Preview of Windows 8 on a virtual machine using Virtual Box. I then installed VFP9, and applied Service Pack 2, as well as all the HotFixes that have been released for VFP9.
You can see the hotfix list and links here: http://fox.wikis.com/wc.dll?Wiki~CurrentVersion
Make sure you version says 09.00.0000.7423
As I recall, the VFP installation installed a few .Net thinhs as well, but I don’t remember the details.
Good luck, and let us know if you get it running.