(Updated August 18, 2011)

DISCLAIMER - The following information is provided to inform our customers of the product development plans for dBASE Plus. Time frames and specific features are subject to change as development proceeds.

Main Goals:

Released - Upgrade dBASE Plus to build it with Microsoft Visual C++ 8.x compiler and and MFC 8.x library.
Released - Comprehensive Support for UAC (User Account Control).
Partially Completed - Stability - Resolve remaining stability issues in code base and libraries.
*Many improvements have been made in the 2.61.4, 2.61.5, 2.62, 2.70.x releases of dBASE Plus in this regard.
Partially Completed - Improved Security - Use new C++ libraries which are designed to prevent buffer overflow based security breaches
Released - Add HTML Help Support for IDE and executables built using dBASE.
In Development - Complete Visual Styles and Theme support
- Program Wide settings
- Form level settings.
- Component level settings
  *Many improvements have been made in the 2.61.5 releases of dBASE Plus for form and component level theme settings..
- Support for a specified theme (rather than the current OS theme)
In Development - Upgrade Common Dialogs to support XP, Vista, Windows 7 level dialogs
In Develpment - Upgrade Menus and Toolbars to support XP, Vista, and Windows 7 level capabilities
In Development - Complete alternative to using the BDE - New ADO Classes (See table below)
- Provides alternative to using the BDE to access databases.
- Can be used with any OLE/DB or ODBC drivers
- Supports newer field datatypes including Unicode fields (UTF-16)
- Supports cancelling lengthy operations (if supported by database server and driver)
- Integrate ADO support into IDE and into dQuery
In Development - Support for high precision numbers
Upgraded ReportViewer
- Support caching report pages for faster page navigation
- Ability to re-run report to get up-to-date data
- Support Zoom In/Out
Upgraded Report Designer and Report Engine
- Support multiple stream sources
- Support simpler grouping mechanism
- Support simpler aggregate calculations
- Better support for multiple pagetemplates
Upgrade dQuery to add:
- Improved stability
- Support for ADO connections
- Improved stored procedure support
- Allow long running query to be cancelled
- Improved Excel support
- Integrate improved ReportViewer and Report Designer
Prototyped - Enhance Extern system to support ability to run managed (.Net code) from within dBASE Plus
XML Support
Released - Project Explorer relative path support.
Work is underway to fully support relative paths and paths containing source aliases in the Project Explorer
In Beta - Support for CALLBACK functions

ADO Classes:

The following classes are implemented as native dBL classes.

The ADO classes include data access classes (those prefixed with ADO) and classes to access and define metadata such as tables, fields, indexes, stored procedures, etc. (those prefixed with “ADOX).

Class name:	Creatable object:	Companion object:	Description:
ADODatabase	Yes	Yes	Represents an open connection to a data source.
ADOQuery	Yes	Yes	Represents an object that describes a query and contains the resulting rowset.
ADOTable	Yes	Yes	Represents an object that describes a table and contains the resulting rowset.
ADOStoredProc	Yes	Yes	Represents an object that describes a stored procedure and contains the resulting rowset.
ADODataShape	Yes	Yes	Represents an object that describes a data shaping and contains the resulting rowset.
ADOStreamXML	Yes	Yes	Represents an object that describes an XML query or stream and contains the resulting rowset.

ADORowset	No	No	Represents the entire set of records from the result of an executed command.
ADOField	No	No	Represents a field (column) from a table.
ADOCommand	Yes	Yes	Represents an object that executes a command.
ADOParameter	Yes	No	Represents a parameter or argument associated with a parameterized query or procedure.
ADOProperty	No	No	Represents a property or characteristic of a data object that is defined by the provider.
ADOChapter	No	No	Represents a chapter column (field) from a record that identifies a hierarchical or child rowset.

ADOError	No	No	Represents an error object that contains details about data access errors.
ADOException	No	No	Represents an object that describes a data access exception.

ADOXCatalog	No	No	Represents a database instance object that contains database objects.
ADOXTable	Yes	No	Represents a database table.
ADOXColumn	Yes	No	Represents a column from a data object.
ADOXIndex	Yes	No	Represents an index from a database table.
ADOXKey	Yes	No	Represents a key field from a database table.
ADOXUser	Yes	No	Represents a user account that has access permissions within a secured database.
ADOXGroup	Yes	No	Represents a group account that has access permissions within a secured database.
ADOXView	Yes	No	Represents a filtered set of records or a virtual table.
ADOXProcedure	Yes	No	Represents a stored procedure.

ADOFieldArray	No	No	Represents a fields collection object.
ADOChapterArray	No	No	Represents a chapter collection object.
ADOErrorArray	No	No	Represents an errors collection object.
ADOPropertyArray	No	No	Represents a properties collection object.
ADOParameterArray	No	No	Represents a parameters collection object.
ADOXTableArray	No	No	Represents a tables collection object.
ADOXColumnArray	No	No	Represents a columns collection object.
ADOXIndexArray	No	No	Represents an indexes collection object.
ADOXKeyArray	No	No	Represents a keys collection object.
ADOXUserArray	No	No	Represents a users collection object.
ADOXGroupArray	No	No	Represents a groups collection object.
ADOXProcedureArray	No	No	Represents a procedures collection object.
ADOXViewArray	No	No	Represents a views collection object.

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