从C＃访问FoxPro 2.6

Question

I have a need to access data stored in a FoxPro 2.6 application using a modern application.

I had assumed that I would access said data in FoxPro using an ODBC Dataconnection and that my weapon of choice would be a WCF service.

Call comes in from 3rd party application; hit service. Service polls FoxPro database and returns the results. Firstly does this sound sound?

Secondly it is more complicated than that. It seems that there are procedures in the FoxPro app that PROCESS the data and return the processed result.

Are there any ways to do this?

Any help much appreciated!

Answer 1

You haven't specified if this is FoxPro 2.6 (DOS) or FoxPro 2.6a (Windows) but either way I don't like your chances.

I would suggest you get the data out and put it into a database that is easy for you to access. FoxPro should allow you to export the data to several other formats, especially if you use a newer version of Visual FoxPro to open the old FoxPro database. Procedures are just code that can be changed over as well.

It's a one time pain that will save you so much time down the road.

Also, FoxPro databases are quite easy to get corrupted so I would suggest you make sure it's backed up!