About the program: for Mental Heath and Substance Abuse Clinics, track
clients (25,000 records in current databse), Service tickets (~140,000
records a year), Yearly reassessments, New admissions/Readmissions,
appointment scheduling for the providers and several other tables.  The
tables are on one Novell 4.11 Network and is accessed from other Novell 4.11
Network's in 3 buildings.

I need speed and I'd like tabbed screens inside of a tabbed screen.

Vote:

Language:    Visual Basic    or    Visual FoxPro

Database:    Access        FoxPro DBF's        SQL Server

3rd Party Tools:    Sheridan Calendar Widgets    Other: _______________

Other suggestions:

    I develop in both languages and have for some time.

    If you're going for speed and using a file server, then the VFP
front/back end will normally beat the VB/Access front/back end.

    If you're going for client-server, then SQL Server's your choice for the
back end and the speed would then come out evenly.

    As far as the time and learning curve, I believe from my experience that
your learning curve going from FP to VFP will be substantially steeper than
going from VB 3 to VB 6.

Best,

Mike

both VB & VFP could use the same databases engine so no diffrence (you
should use ADO 2.0 to access SQL Server databases. and I prefer using Stored
Procedures for almost anything)

I don't know how fast is VFP but if you really want speed use VC...

The only advantge of VFP over VB I know is that VFP is truly object oriented
(inheritance, polimorphism,...)...

About third party tool you should try :
- FarPoint Input Pro
And
-DataDynamics ActiveReports (this is a great report control, it makes
Crystal look like a child toy)

if your app is written in FP I suposse that your natural choice is VFP, but
I don't know how long Microsoft will suport VFP and of course there are a
lot more resources of any kind (info, people, third party tools, ...) for
VB.

see you
Rolando

VB6 (if that is what you go with) has a pretty nice calendar control. It's
been substantially reworked since 5.0. You might want to wait and check out
the controls that come with either application before you spend money on a
third party control.

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Merf

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