Microsoft Visual FoxPro Roadmap
The VFP team made a special announcement to the community on March 13, 2007. The team has announced that there will be no VFP 10. VFP 9 will continue to be supported as per the support policy (
http://support.microsoft.com/lifecycle/?p1=7992) through 2015.
After the release of Visual FoxPro 9.0 and Visual FoxPro 9.0 Service Pack1, the Visual FoxPro team at Microsoft has been working on a new project code-named Sedna. Sedna takes advantage of enhancements in Visual FoxPro 9.0. The primary goal of Sedna is to expand on the ability of Visual FoxPro-based solutions to better integrate with other Microsoft products and technologies.
Features in Sedna will target Visual FoxPro interoperability with application components created using Visual Studio 2005, the .NET Framework 2.0 and SQL Server 2005. Sedna will also help improve the ability for Visual FoxPro 9.0 solutions to be successfully deployed on Windows Vista. Sedna is planned to be released before the end of Summer of 2007. Sedna Feature Overview documents describe the various aspects of Sedna.
Visual FoxPro will also release a service pack (SP2). This service pack will include several critical fixes, including those required to better support Windows Vista.
As indicated in prior public statements, Microsoft does not plan to merge Visual FoxPro into Visual Studio .NET, nor are there plans to create a new Visual FoxPro .NET programming language. Visual FoxPro will remain stand-alone Win32 based, and will run on 64-bit Windows in 32-bit compatibility mode.
For more information about Visual FoxPro, including answers toVisual FoxPro FAQ, go to the Visual FoxPro Developer Center Web site. at
http://msdn.com/vfoxpro.
(Updated: March 2007)