Andrew MacNeill - AKSEL Solutions

I've been using Carbonite for online backup for a few years now. I did try XDrive and I have earlier posts about how horrible it was. One thing I've always liked about it is the ability to pull back individual files almost like an incremental version update. The fact that the backup drives integrate perfectly with Windows Explorer is a definite plus. But when my laptop bit the dust recently (a That's when I found a major problem. By default, Carbonite does not backup what it considers to be system files (EXE, DLL, COM, etc). It does backup VB, CS , ASPX files without a problem. But Carbonite considers a PRG file to be a system file. I'm not quite sure why - but it does. As a result, none of my PRG files were backed up. As a FoxPro developer, this is tantamount to disaster. I would restore all my files and while the VFP screens and class libraries were all present - I couldn't run any of my code because it was missing a PRG file. I contacted Carbonite about this an...

A little bit of fall-out from eTecnologia's apparent abandonment of the VFP.Net project. VFPX could suffer from the same fate except that those involved are already supporting it as an open-source project. There are lots of ways of working with VFP in .Net and in any language. I use VFP pretty much every day and it's not part of the client's arsenal - but it turns around the work I need done - be it prototypes, sample data input and more...it's faster and better than the alternatives. But it is simply one tool in the toolbox - like the screwdriver that seems to fix almost every problem - there are always times to use others. I'll post a little more on my own experiences but Hank's post here is very telling. We've heard about VFP Studio and also now about VFP.Net - in both of these cases, it might have been better to open source the two. ProSysPlus Blog: And Then There Are The Pickles