<r>Hi Wolfgang,
<QUOTE author="wriedmann"><s>[quote="wriedmann"]</s>But it seems that SAP does not invest any money in the product and keeps it only to earn money ( I had asked for a 2 user development server as it was available in earlier versions, and they declined it, so I had to pay for a normal ...

<r><QUOTE author="robert"><s>[quote="robert"]</s>.<br/>
We have done some additional research and so far have found no things that are not possible with the Advantage API.<br/>
We have opened up communication with SAP to see if we can become an Advantage OEM partner and distributor.<br/>
I am having ...

<r><QUOTE author="FoxProMatt"><s>[quote="FoxProMatt"]</s>With ADS in the mix, will a paid license be required on each client machine that runs the compiled EXE? Or does one just have to purchase a developer license of ADS one time, and it's good for all deployed client app installs?<e>[/quote]</e ...

<r>Seems my writing was not clear enough...
<QUOTE author="robert"><s>[quote="robert"]</s>
I was referring to this:
<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>
I think even local server (while simple ISAM) <B><s>[b]</s>does not allow vfp-similar access<U><s>[u]</s> in vfp<e>[/u]</e></U><e>[/b]</e></B> but needs to be ...

<r><QUOTE author="robert"><s>[quote="robert"]</s>No you are not right about ADS here. ADS has an API (Called ACE Advantage Client Engine) that we are using in our RDD already. The ODBC, OLEDB and .Net Dataproviders for Advantage use the same API.<br/>
This API is very powerfull.<e>[/quote]</e ...

<r><QUOTE author="OASDavid"><s>[quote="OASDavid"]</s>A little background: Our applications are written in VFP and forms are currently bound to VFP Tables. Most clients are running on our Terminal Servers, so performance and reliability have worked ok. Having said that, I would like to move to a SQL ...

<r><QUOTE author="robert"><s>[quote="robert"]</s>
I am not sure if Advantage supports DBC databases. I'll have to check that.<e>[/quote]</e></QUOTE>
AFAIR they have an analogue table to which a DBC can be "upsized" near automatically. So a bit more work on table structue modification, not everything ...

<r>Hi Robert,<br/>
reading up on the sources you pointed to in the vfp / local thread with own brain tuned to rather dumb/not optimizing vfp, the code in<br/>
<URL url="https://github.com/X-Sharp/XSharpPublic/blob/feature/Runtime/Runtime/XSharp.RT/Functions/Macro.prg"><LINK_TEXT text="https://github ...

<r>Hi Robert,
<QUOTE author="robert"><s>[quote="robert"]</s>I wrote table but it is actually a dictionary.<e>[/quote]</e></QUOTE>
sometimes my reading is too literal, as in trying to envision specs...<br/>

<QUOTE author="robert"><s>[quote="robert"]</s><QUOTE author="mainhatten"><s>[quote ...

<r>Hi Robert,<br/>
[reordered a bit to better answer ]
<QUOTE author="robert"><s>[quote="robert"]</s>
This has the advantage:<br/>
- even when you compile with /fox2, when your code does NOT use one of the special functions like Type(), Eval() etc then the compiler will not "pollute" the generated ...