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Introduction.
In April 2027, we are organizing our fifth European conference, following successful events in 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2026.
With the help from two German customers, we have found a great location in the historic town of Karlsruhe, not far from Stuttgart.
We will present the current state of the X# development and show how to migrate your apps to XSharp. Furthermore, we will also discuss the internals of X# and how you can extend X#. Finally, we will discuss our future plans, and showcase some work in progress.
This summit is structured to encourage open and facilitated face-to-face discussions and idea-sharing among all attendees. Refreshments will be provided throughout the day, with scheduled lunch and snack breaks.
Location.The event will take place at the following hotel: |
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Agenda.
The list of speakers and sessions for our summit in 2027 is not ready yet. At least the members of the X# development team will be there and present sessions.
| Fabrice Foray | Summary |
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| Nikos Kokkalis | |
| Chris Pyrgas | |
| Irwin Rodriguez | |
| Robert van der Hulst | |
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Opening Session & Closing Session |
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The list of speakers for our summit in 2027 is not ready yet. At least the X# development team members will be there.
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After a first encounter with personal computing and a Tandy TRS-80 in the early 80's, it was the use of Clipper 86 that led Fabrice to xBase languages. He has been teaching computer science in France for more than 30 years, especially with C++, Java and C# languages, and at the same time he continued the xBase adventure with CA-Visual Objects, Vulcan.Net and finally XSharp! |
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| Nikos Kokkalis started programming at an early age as a hobby. He studied Computer Engineering at the Demo-critus University of Thrace, where he also earned his doctorate. He has been a freelance software developer since 1996, with periods of employment in between. From 1996 to 2004 he worked for Anadelta Software on business software and road construction CAD. From 2009 to 2022 he worked as an embedded software and digital signal processing engineer at Intracom Telecom. From 2011 to 2015, Nikos was also a member of the GrafX development team. Since September 2015, he has been a member of the XSharp development team, mainly working on the compiler, macro compiler and database engine. Since 2023 he is a software engineer at Arista Networks. | |
| Chris Pyrgas | Chris Pyrgas started programming at the age of 12, and after several years of developing small games, utilities and real-time graphics presentations (together with Nikos Kokkalis) using Basic, Pascal and assembly language, Chris started his professional career at 20 in 1996, developing business applications in Clipper and Visual Objects, as a member of Anadelta Software in Greece. In the early stages of the .Net Framework (v1.0), Chris also got involved with the CULE.Net project, in which he developed "CulEdit", the first version of the IDE that later became VIDE and is now XIDE. Later, he got involved with Vulcan.NET and became a member of the development team. In the last 8 years, Chris has been a full-time member of the X# development team, working mainly on XIDE, the VOXporter, the VO-compatible binary editors, the X# runtime, quality assurance, testing and customer support. |
| Irwin Rodriguez |
Irwin Rodriguez is a software developer with 17 years of experience in Visual FoxPro, where he specialized in creating developer-focused tools and libraries. In the last three years, he transitioned to X# .NET, evolving his tooling ecosystem with projects such as FoxCore, FoxPilot and FoxServer, which significantly enhance FoxPro development workflows. Since the introduction of ChatGPT in 2022, he has been an early adopter of AI-assisted programming, and in recent years he has focused on bringing his libraries to life by integrating AI through APIs into both FoxPro and X# applications. Irwin is an active member of the X# development team and serves as the official X# ambassador for Spain and Latin America. |
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Robert van der Hulst (The Netherlands) has been part of the IT industry since the 80's. He started developing applications in DOS with dBase, Clipper and FoxBase, C and Assembler. Later, he developed applications for Windows and .Net with C/C++, Visual Objects, Vulcan .Net, Visual FoxPro, and C#. Robert has created several third-party components for Visual Objects and Vulcan developers and has been part of the Visual Objects and Vulcan.Net development team, where he worked on the compiler, IDE, runtime and RDD systems. In 2015, Robert founded the XSharp (X#) Project, together with Fabrice Foray (France), Nikos Kokkalis (Greece) and Chris Pyrgas (Greece). They were all colleagues from the former Vulcan.Net development team who decided there was a need for an open-source implementation of XBase for .Net. |
Sunday, April 18, 2027 |
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| 18:00 - 22:00 | Welcome Reception |
Monday, April 19, 2027 |
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| 09:00-09:15 | Welcome & Opening X# Development Team |
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| 10:30-10:45 | Break |
| 10:45-12:00 | |
| 12:00-12:15 | Break |
| 13:30-14:30 | Lunch |
| 15:45-16:00 | Break |
| 17:15-18:30 | Break |
| 18:30-20:00 | Dinner |
| 20:00-... | Freak Night, several topics |
Tuesday, April 20, 2027 |
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| 09:00-10:15 | |
| 10:15-10:30 | Break |
| 10:30-11:45 | |
| 11:45-12:00 | Break |
| 12:00-13:15 | |
| 13:15 13:30 | Closing session X# Development Team |
| 13:30-14:30 | Lunch |
| afternoon | Free for informal meetings |
| 18:00-23:00 | Speakers Diner, including remaining guests |
We have uploaded the what's new document for XSharp 3 to this website.
You can find it here:
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What's new in X# 3
Popular 3.0.0.4 252.48 KB |
2026-05-27 |
This is the status of X#Sharp 3 RC1 that was released today (May 27th).
When no problems are found we expect to release XSharp 3 to our subscribers in the next 2 weeks.
A public version of XSharp 3 (mainly targeted at the VFP audience) will become available 1-2 weeks later.
Please note that the public build of XSharp 3 will NOT support the VO and Vulcan dialects, like announced before.
A short message to inform you about the X# 3 progress.
We had announced X# 3 for April, but unfortunately we need a few more weeks. Beta 3 has been released last week and is looking very good. There are a few minor things that we need to look at before releasing X# 3.
We now expect to release it around May 15. We hope / plan to also release new versions of ReportPro 2 and 3 as well as Xs2Ado at the same time, so when you use these products you can migrate to X# 3 without problems. However, we're not sure about the status of bBrowser. If you have the source code you can recompile it yourself. There should be very few problems. We'll contact the owner of bBrowser to ask about his plans for X# 3..
Next week we will publish a detailed list of the changes in X# 3 compared with the latest version of X# 2.
Please note that there will be NO public version of X# 3. If you want it you need to become a FOX subscriber. You can become a subscriber for EUR 499,50 (for a half year of support) or EUR 999 (for a full year of support).
The XSharp Summit 2026 in Potsdam, Germany, our 5th annual meeting, is now over. It was great meeting and talking to many familiar faces and also some new ones as well! There were several sessions on diverse and interesting topics delivered by dev team members (including Irwin, our new welcomed member) and external speakers, all very well received!
Session material (to be downloaded from attendees) and photos from the event will follow up soon.
We're looking forward to meeting you all again in our next summit, more info on that will be announced in the coming weeks, as well a summary of the plans for the future that was presented in the closing session of the event.
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