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FoxPro Application Maintenance Ted Roche Blackstone Incorporated http://www.bstone.com

Who Am I? Director of Development Microsoft Certified Solution Developer, Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer Co-Author Hacker’s Guide to VFP 6 Microsoft Support MVP, 1994 – present

Maintenance Business Issues – Client’s and Consultant’s Auditing an application Tools to maintain application Issues in maintenance WTF code

Business Issues Cost-benefit, ROI, business case Structuring a maintenance contract Structuring a support contract Slices of the pie

Auditing an Application - 1 Locate all source code Sort “live” code from old/temp code Process Project File or Directory Count #lines of code, comments, files DEMO

Auditing an Application – 2 Review documentation ERD User Manuals Developer manuals, standards, notes

Auditing an Application – 3 Review code Project structure, framework Code structure Commenting Maintenance

Tools to Maintain Application Existing documentation, if any FoxDoc / Documenting Wizard Filer to find code references Object Browser to document object model Hacker’s Guide / Help File

Issues in Maintenance Working with older runtimes/older environments “Gee, it doesn’t do that here” Hardware/OS updates not supported USB Printer on a DOS application WinMe locked at FILES=40

WTF Code “Two wrongs don’t make a right, but three rights make a left.”

Summary Business model for maintenance Audit unknown applications Build tools to assist in maintenance Anticipate challenges

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