Just looking for ideas here so don’t shoot me.
We have a very large application that consists of many interrelated segments that is currently running in Visual Foxpro using dbf files. Visual Foxpro was discontinued many moons ago, but this application was initially started in the 80’s and has been running for decades. And, of course, it has gone through many, many updates and modifications.
We are now considering a re-write, but one of the HUGE concerns is the code-test-debug-compile-deploy cycles that this would require, especially considering this application would be very, very large in order to handle all the various options.
Prior to Visual Foxpro, we built this application in FOXBASE (before it was purchased by Microsoft) and one of the neat things you could do with Foxbase was build a number of .FOX files and call them in your application. So one of those could handle order processing and one of them could handle the accounts receivables function. If you had a bug in the order processing process, you only had to regenerate the FOX file for order processing.
Has anyone come up with a way to break up a large app into separate EXE’s and call the one needed from a menu system so that you could reduce the build time for making changes to an application?
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