Advantages of Visual FoxPro

1. Visual FoxPro is developed by Microsoft and
    continuously updated with version 7.0 just released.

2. VFP is a development tool that is mainly catering for
    business applications.

3. It is a truly an object orient language and includes an
    advanced functionality such as inheritance and it is the
    "Premier" tool for building the middle tier in n-tier
    applications

4. It has a great advantage over Visual Basic because of its
    native database thus ensuring faster processing of data.

5. Visual Basic unlike VFP is object based & lacks
    inheritance, which is one of the fundamental components
    of object orient design. In addition Visual Basic does not
    have a built in database nor a language catered around
    database programming.

6. VFP has drivers that can access databases from other
    office products such as Excel, Access Database etc.

7. Another major advantage is the using of libraries, add-on
    tools and framework thus preventing rewriting of software
    and providing cost effective solutions.

8. VFP does not have run-time system costs even the
    FoxPro database has no end-user licensing fees.