Software update: Microsoft Visual FoxPro 9.0 beta

Microsoft released the first beta version of Visual FoxPro 9.0 yesterday set† This release is from here down and weighs just under ninety megabytes. Visual FoxPro 9.0 beta can be used until March 31, 2005, after which the test version will no longer be able to function. The program is described by Microsoft as follows:

Microsoft Visual FoxPro is an extremely powerful tool for quickly building database applications and components. Its data-centric, object-oriented language offers developers a robust tool set for building database applications—for the desktop, as a client/server solution, or on the Web—by using components and XML Web services.