Despite a concerted online effort by devoted Visual FoxPro developers, Microsoft Corp. said late last week that it won’t change its plan to halt work on the venerable database programming tool. In a ...

Visual FoxPro 9.0, the latest update to a database technology Microsoft acquired in 1992, is generally available this week and will be supported through 2014. Visual FoxPro, which can be used to ...

The flood of interest in .NET accompanying the release of Windows Server 2003 might tend to obscure recent improvements in Visual FoxPro. With the release of Version 8.0, Microsoft said that it is not ...

Visual FoxPro 9 will be the end of the line for Microsoft's under-appreciated desktop database developer tool, the company formally told third-party developers Tuesday. The announcement likely came as ...

Microsoft's forgotten product will get a new breath of life with the news that a new version of the Visual FoxPro database has been released to manufacturing. Although Big Green paid big bucks for the ...

Last month, Microsoft announced that there would be no Visual FoxPro 10. Instead, the release cycle would end at Visual FoxPro 9 Service Pack 1, and the focus would shift to a new project, codenamed ...

It was just a few weeks ago at salesforce.com's DreamForce Conference that the company known for its on-demand CRM solutions rolled out force.com and a new development tool it's calling visualforce.

Editors' Note: This article has been updated with an addendum since its original posting. It started out in an unassuming manner: an industrious developer, Paul McNett, had a growing interest in Linux ...