Thomas, I agree with you that much work needs to be done on the back end for real VFP compatibility. But all those things will need a lot of testing and iterating, and if there isn't a project converter then there won't be a base of people doing the testing. If there were a working project converter ...

As far as I am aware, the project converter for VFP to X# is not completed. That would have to be done before a company could contemplate a migration from VFP to X#. If that were available and could get you 90% of the way toward a working X# project then there might be interest in the FoxPro ...

It's extremely easy to create an XML file from a table in Visual Foxpro:

adapter = CREATEOBJECT("XMLAdapter")
USE mytable
adapter.AddTableSchema("mytable")
adapter.ToXML("xmloutput.xml",,.t.)

That copies all the data from a table to an XML file. If you want to do something different from that ...

I've never used SET ALTERNATE although I've used SET PRINTER TO and SET PRINT ON which is functionally pretty much the same thing. I don't know exactly what you're trying to do, but it sounds like using TEXT ... ENDTEXT (probably with TEXTMERGE) would give you finer control of the output. Using that ...

For myself, I make substantial use of THISFORM but I have never used THISFORMSET. Doing a little research, it appears that Microsoft maintained THISFORMSET in Visual Foxpro mainly for backward compatibility. I found an article Foxite which explains how to use THISFORMSET: https://www.foxite.com ...

I second this. "Thisform" is extremely handy when you are using custom classes and you want to reference a property or method of the form on which the class is located. As you say, you can do the parent.parent.parent route but that becomes very complex, especially when a class could be used on ...

<r>I have to apologize because I made a mistake here. I'm not sure what I was doing when I got the results I reported, but the FoxPro help is clear that the array isn't truncated: <B><s>[b]</s>Each successive row in the array is filled with the contents of the next record in the table. If the array ...

<t>I mentioned some issues with Copy to Array a while back, which have been fixed, but I don't think I ever mentioned this. When you use Copy to Array with Foxpro, the length of the array will be truncated to the number of the items copied. With XSharp, the original length of the array remains ...

I tried the "@S8" with Transform in FoxPro and it didn't seem to work. LEN(Transform(Space(100), "@S8")) returns 100 in FoxPro. It would be a handy feature though.

I tried both the popup window and MemVarGet and both ways work well. Thanks Robert and Chris.