Welcome To Vulcan.NET

Welcome

Vulcan.NETVulcan.NET is the next generation of the xBase family of languages. Vulcan.NET provides a high level of backwards-compatibility with the Visual Objects language, while at the same time bringing it into the 21st century with all the features you would expect in a modern programming language. In addition, Vulcan.NET brings all the benefits of the .NET platform to the Visual Objects language, opening up a whole new world of opportunities for xBase programmers.

Vulcan.NET is fully CLS compliant and supports the vast majority of features available to .NET languages, including method and operator overloading, strongly typed arrays, reference and value types, enumeration types, low level pointer operations, and more.

Vulcan.NET is integrated into Visual Studio 2005/2008/2010 with project and file templates, a highly customizable code editor with syntax highlighting, and advanced editing features, a full-featured debugger, a Windows Forms designer, and other tools.

   

For Visual Objects Developers:

trophyTo the extent that is both possible and practical, Vulcan.NET is syntactically and semantically compatible with Visual Objects version 2.8. Unless specifically stated otherwise, you should assume that the behavior of any given language element or runtime function will be the same in Vulcan.NET as it is in Visual Objects. To achieve the highest level of compatibility, it may be necessary to set some or all of the Visual Objects compatibility options. 

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Of course, any movement forward is inevitably going to require some changes to existing code. However, migrating from the native code world of Visual Objects to the managed code world of .NET is not nearly as major a change as was the movement from DOS to Windows, from weakly to strongly typed programming, or even from procedural to object-oriented programming.

The managed code world of .NET is very much like the environment you are already accustomed to. The .NET CLR provides a garbage collected memory manager, full object orientation, runtime array bounds checking, structured exception handling, and so on.

 

 
 
News
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Fischer & Consultants will carry over the German distribution of Vulcan.NET & VO
Wednesday, February 22, 2012 
Grafx Software & Fischer & Consultants GmbH are announcing that Fischer & Consultants will carry over the distribution of Vulcan.NET and Visual Objects in Germany.

Since the early days oft the Clipper Compiler, the distribution of XBase products in Germany was closely connected with Dieter Crispien. In the last couple of years he has taken responsibility for the german version of the product web sites and the organization of the VODC, the developers conference here in Germany. Sadly, this era will find an end. Reasons of age will force Crispien to back out of business. For this reason, Fischer &Consultants will carry over the distribution of VO and Vulcan.NET in Germany. We kindly ask you to send your orders in written form to one oft he addresses which are noted at the end of this note. We are currently working on a relaunch of the web sites and will offer you an online order in the near future.

The developers conference VODC will also organized in the future by Fischer & Consultants. We are glad that Dieter Crispien will still support us with his experience. He will also actively contribute to the organization of the conference. We want to say thank you to Grafx Software for the trust they put in us and looking forward to cooperate with all interested developers!

Fischer & Consultants GmbH
Fax: 0221-350 860 81
Email: info@appfact.de
                                                       
    
Vulcan.NET 2.09 for VPS
Sunday, January 15, 2012 
Vulcan.NET 2.09 was released to VPS in December. This version features new PROPERTY syntax and functionality. More Visual Studio integration enhancements were included, along with resolutions for a number of issues.

To subscribe to VOPS follow this link: http://www.grafxsoft.com/2vosubscribe.htm

                                                       
    
Price changes for Vulcan.NET and support contracts
Saturday, December 10, 2011 

The object of this re-pricing is to give you, the customer, more flexibility to use the products you wish to use, and relates to "life time licenses" for Vulcan.NET and Visual Objects, and Support Contracts (VPS/Support and upgrades).

Grafx recognizes the world wide financial situation and has made the price changes to reflect these more difficult times, and the various ways in which end users use our products. Some users want more help than others, others want to be left alone, and others are willing to support their software vendor, on the basis that it costs money to develop software.

New prices are as follows:

Vulcan.NET (Single copy license)
US$495.00 (Latest Version) life time license

Vulcan.NET (Upgrade Point Releases)
US$249.00(Latest Version)

Service Contracts, now called VPS (Vulcan Platinum Subscriptions)
US$695.00 per user per year. (requires single user licence)

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Vulcan.NET on Code Project
Thursday, November 10, 2011 
Code Project is a significant programmer resource web site. Vulcan.NET is now included as one of their tags; see this posting by Willie Moore for an example: Using a text listener to log messages
                                                       
    
Vulcan.NET 2.08 for VOPS
Friday, September 30, 2011 
Vulcan.NET 2.08 supports defining EVENTs in Vulcan.NET code. There are also significant changes to the integration with Visual Studio, giving enhanced Intellisense functionality. Vulcan.NET 2.08 is currently available to VOPS subscribers. To subscribe to VOPS follow this link: http://www.grafxsoft.com/2vosubscribe.htm
                                                       
    

 
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