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I have a large database in Foxpro 9.0 with several tables and programs (.prg). I need to convert these to MS Access. Can this easily be done so I don't need to recreate them from scratch?
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Foxpro uses ,dbf tables and Access 2010 and read and import those files (2013 can't). But the prg files will have to be rewritten. Xbase is not too dissimilar to VBA and prg files are just text files that can be opened in Notepad. So you could work side by side to convert the code.
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Easily? Not really, unfortunately. As Scott says you can import the data in the .dbf files into Access tables, but the whole philosophy and structure of an Access database is quite different from FoxPro; it relies much less on code and much more on Queries and event-driven Form actions. The times I've had to do it required basically using the FoxPro application as a specifications example to build the database almost from scratch.
Doable, yes. Fun, not so much... good luck!