MS Visual Studio 2013 / Harbour / FWH !

[TimStone]

There have been many threads about using Microsoft Visual Studio 2013, Harbour, and FWH ( 14.07 ). YES IT CAN BE DONE SUCCESSFULLY !

I have a rather large application, originally built with xHarbour (.com ), but now being built in the environment mentioned above. It has over 130 .prg files, each with 750 to 7500 lines of code. It addresses 110 .dbf's with .fpt and indexes. It works with DBFCDX, or ADS ( Local or Server ). It is very complex and highly integrated.

I now have the entire application running, built within Visual Studio. Here are a few things I would like to share:

1) Check the linker settings carefully. I was having problems with some code not having an entry point which was finally resolved with a linker setting. This was a specific piece of SSL code that other's might not every need to consider.
2) There are ample "getting started" threads on this site. You can use this combo successfully.
3) I am not a huge fan of the VS editor. So, for my .prg files, I was able to set VS to open the file in my Ultra Edit Studio. Changes made, and saved, were immediately reflected in Visual Studio, and I could instantly rebuild my code.

I have a lot more to do. I intend to refine my code to use full classes for major functional areas ( ie. customers, inventory, accounting capabilities ). I also am considering a transition to SQL.

My reason for posting this is that I want to encourage everyone to consider this path seriously. As we move into using this system, I believe we will find far more flexibility in our programming resources, and it may be much easier to build ancillary programs to interface with our primary applications.

I wish you all well in studying this capability. Without Antonio's persistent help, it would have not been possible. However, it has happened and we are better for it.

[MFarias]

Tim,
I also have this same desire already running some applications even provide a simple example in my https://github.com/matheushchaves/agendafivedbf git, here we have a company in the application of commercial management and sales of this size as well and Programmable Bank data, first I'm walking the walk MsSql (until the best support to VS MsSql) through to system compatibility with ADO that five is providing us, I will try this on my blog sharing matheusfarias.com.br (that is undergoing maintenance) all these experiences have already mounted agile tools to do this in FiveWin a more "pleasant" way .To me this moment this is fantastic

[aferra]

Hello Tim.

searched the forum but have not found information to compile FWH + msvc + harbour could help me?

[cnavarro]

Look
viewtopic.php?f=17&t=28723&p=161149&hilit=visual+studio#p161128

viewtopic.php?f=3&t=28958&p=162902&hilit=visual+studio#p162895

[TimStone]

Here is a link on how to add .prg files to VS 2013. One thing to change. You are told how to change the configuration for each .prg. However, if you highlight the main project title in the Project Manager sidebar, then click on properties, make that same configuration change there. Then whenever you click to include it and set it to a Custom type, the two lines of text will fill in automatically. Confused ? You'll understand when you start to do this.

viewtopic.php?f=3&t=28674&p=160695&hilit=visual+studio#p160695

I will be on vacation until the 18th and not monitoring the forum very frequently.

[Antonio Linares]

Tim,

Thanks so much for your help

[elvira]

Tim,

1) Check the linker settings carefully. I was having problems with some code not having an entry point which was finally resolved with a linker setting. This was a specific piece of SSL code that other's might not every need to consider.

Can you please explain this?.

Thanks!!!

[TimStone]

Elvira,

I will try. I found it just before I left for vacation, and shut my mind off on everything.

I was building the project first with a UE Studio make script. I used libs from Visual C++ 2013, and from the Visual Studio SDK 7.1A. Everything went together fine.

When I went into Visual Studio 2013 to do my build, I allowed it to select some of the libs without specifying them. Thus, I had some problems with newer versions of Windows libs ( apparently ). I will have to check that out. I will also need to ask Antonio to provide the latest MS FWH / Harbour builds with VS 2013 so we can weed out any incompatibilities.

I'm very comfortable with where this will all lead, but we do have a learning curve with Visual Studio. So much of what it does by default simply works well, but we need to be sure everything we link in is current. Otherwise we run into problems. In my case, it was a simple TIP/SSL issue that I encountered.

We just need to be sure everything we use is current.

Tim