Difference between FoxPro and Visual FoxPro

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What is the difference between FoxPro and Visual FoxPro ?

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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_FoxPro - Laurent S.
You could have googled it. - Varad
@Varad I didn't get the exact difference - Y.E.P
@Y.E.P it is in the first paragraph of the Wikipedia article. "Visual FoxPro .... It is derived from FoxPro (originally known as FoxBASE)..." - TheHippo
+1. It's not always easy to grasp what Microsoft means when it adds "Visual" to the front of a product name, as it has done numerous times. I think it's perfectly reasonable to ask what it is that makes it "Visual". - John M Gant

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Visual FoxPro is the successor to FoxPro. In the transition from FoxPro 2.6 to Visual FoxPro 3.0, many things were added including object orientation, a much improved tool for designed forms, built-in support for remote SQL databases and more. This article might help: http://www.tomorrowssolutionsllc.com/Articles/Learning%20Visual%20FoxPro%E2%80%94The%20Top%20Ten%20List.PDF

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'Visual' was just the Microsoft buzzword of the day - they were including the new Win32, OOP version of FoxPro in the Visual Studio suite of products and so they probably wanted to align the name with Visual BASIC, Visual InterDev and so on.