July 11 , 2008

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.

Major Upgrade of dBASE Plus built using Microsoft Visual C++ 8.0 and MFC 8.0 during the next 12 to 24 months (from original date).

Status: Early Alpha Testing and refinement of ported code:

Already ported:

Plus.exe (IDE), PlusRun.exe (Runtime) and Plus_en.dll (English Resource File), PlusStub.bin ADO classes coded and undergoing Alpha Testing and integration into IDE.

Not yet ported:

PlusDebug.exe, non-English Resource Files

Main Goals:

Stability - Resolve remaining stability issues in code base and libraries.
*Many improvements have been made in the 2.61.4 and 2.61.5 releases of dBASE Plus in this regard.
Improved Security - Use new C++ libraries which are designed to prevent buffer overflow based security breaches
Add HTML Help Support for IDE and executables built using dBASE.
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)

Upgrade Common Dialogs to support XP and Vista level dialogs
Upgrade Menus and Toolbars to support XP and Vista level capabilities
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

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

Enhance Extern system to support ability to run managed (.Net code) from within dBASE Plus
XML Support
Project Explorer relative path support.
Work is underway to fully support relative paths and paths containing source aliases in the Project Explorer
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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