Migration of a VFP application into a Silverswitch solution Venelina Jordanova Venelina@VandU.eu Uwe Habermann Uwe@VandU.eu

Silverswitch

Silverswitch Rapid Application Development development environment for Silverlight Silverswitch.sln Migration of VFP applications VFX – Silverlight Wizard Visual Extend for VFP re-developed in C#

Silverswitch Supported databases VFP SQL Server MySQL, ADS, DB2, Oracle, …

Silverswitch Programming C# VFP at the server side with COM server Powerful method call even from client side VFP at the client side with GUINEU Execution also on Mac OS and in the future on other platforms

Silverswitch What does it contain? Template application Silverswitch.sln Start page Wizards Update Project Builders DataGrid, PickField, Form VFX – Silverlight Wizard Included in VFX for VFP

Migration to Silverswitch VFP projects VFX projects

Requirements for the VFX – Silverlight Wizard Database Primary keys for all tables Dataenvironment Tables Cursoradapters No views No programatical used tables

Requirements for the VFX – Silverlight Wizard All controls in the form No instantiation of controls at runtime VFP projects Base classes of controls are migrated VFX projects VFX classes of controls are migrated

Requirements for the development Visual FoxPro 9 VFX 13 and Silverswitch Visual Web Developer 2010 Express Optional: SQL Server (Express) Silverlight 4 Tools WCF RIA Services 1 SP1 Silverlight 4 Toolkit

Requirements at the customer‘s side Client Silverlight 4 Plug-In (6 MB) Server Windows Server Internet Information Server .Net Framework 4.0

Creation of a Silverswitch application Create new project based on template project “Silverswitch” Don’t execute, don’t build Run VFX – Silverlight Wizard

VFX – Silverlight Wizard What does this wizard do? Explanation VFP COM server is generated Administrator rights required!

VFX – Silverlight Wizard Select Silverswitch solution

VFX – Silverlight Wizard Data access Create ADO.NET Entity Data Model Create Domain Service Create and register VFP COM server

VFX – Silverlight Wizard Settings of the application object Add VFX forms to table Vfxfopen

VFX – Silverlight Wizard Select forms Forms marked as included into the project get migrated by default VFX*.scx forms do not get migrated

VFX – Silverlight Wizard Project names for forms Forms can be summarized to projects Optimization of project size and download size and time

VFX – Silverlight Wizard Select form properties Layout similar to VFP -> select all properties Hard-coded property values cannot be overwritten by styles

VFX – Silverlight Wizard Select reports Reports, marked as included into the project, get migrated by default

VFX – Silverlight Wizard Finish! Success message or Log Test!

Features of the Silverswitch application Prepared frame for the application Splash screen Optional login dialog Toolbar with XAML icons Data-driven open dialog Internet application Intranet application

Features of the Silverswitch application User login Runtime localization User management User rights User groups MDI user interface

Features of generated forms Autoedit New, edit, delete, save, undo Navigation Sort and incremental search in DataGrid Resizable, minimize, maximize

Features of generated forms Treatment of update conflicts Filter dialog

What does the VFX – Silverlight Wizard do? Add forms to the solution Entry in table Vfxfopen Migration of forms MVP Model-View-Presenter

What does the VFX – Silverlight Wizard do? Example Customer.xaml Layout Customer.xaml.cs Settings CustomerController.cs Developer’s code CustomerControllerBase.cs Generated code

What does the VFX – Silverlight Wizard do? Generates VFP COM server Data access to VFP database using cursoradapters

VFX – Silverlight Wizard Video tutorial (in German) available at www.MSDN-Solve.de and on the memory sticks

VFPizza in the Cloud Inform! Create account Create SQL Server database Make project settings Publishing with Visual Studio wizard 2 virtual maschines recommended http://VFPizza.CloudApp.net

VFPizza in the Cloud Video tuorial (in German) available at http://www.MSDN-Solve.de and on the memory sticks

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