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 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:

KnowVulcan1.gifTo 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. 

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
Current  Archive    
Updated Vulcan IDE Available
Wednesday, July 02, 2008 
The latest version of Vulcan IDE by Chris Purgas can be downloaded from GoVulcan.net. You will find it under the Trial Version menu option. 
                                                       
    
New and Improved Vulcan.NET
Tuesday, June 24, 2008 

We have posted a new and improved trial version of Vulcan.NET which is now ready for download. Click on the Trial Version menu option at http://www.goVulcan.net to go to the download page.

This new build is the product of 3 months work. It contains approximately fifty bug fixes and a host of new features including Intellisense for Visual Studio 2005/2008.

 


                                                       
    
New entries in the Application Gallery
Thursday, June 05, 2008 

Take a look at the Application Gallery for great examples of Vulcan at work. New entries include Image Tools from BEST Consultancy in the UK and business applications from Softway in Greece.

 


                                                       
    
Vulcan.NET at TechEd USA
Tuesday, June 03, 2008 
If you are attending TechEd USA on 3-6 June you can visit the GrafX booth, #1347, in the
VSIP Partner Pavilion and see the latest Vulcan.NET can do!
                                                       
    
Vulcan.NET featured in Visual Studio Gallery
Saturday, April 26, 2008 
Visual Studio Gallery, http://www.visualstudiogallery.com, is a Microsoft web site dedicated to languages, tools and extensions that can be used with Visual Studio. Vulcan.NET is promoted on the site, appearing in the Programming Languages section. The Beginning with Vulcan.NET video also appears in the Featured Videos section, http://www.visualstudiogallery.com/videos.aspx

                                                       
    
New samples
Thursday, April 17, 2008 

New samples are available. They include a version of the Orders sample that uses .NET Framework classes, ADO.NET and the Microsoft Visual FoxPro OLEDB Provider. Another sample shows how to use the cPOP and related classes, moved from VO to Vulcan, to retrieve and display email message headers in a Windows Forms application. You can find the samples under the Examples/More Samples menu option at http://www.govulcan.net.


                                                       
    
Visual Studio 2008 - Vulcan.NET Edition
Tuesday, March 25, 2008 

Visual Studio 2008 - Vulcan.NET Edition can now be downloaded by following the links from the Trial Version menu option at http://www.govulcan.net. If you currently have the Standard, Professional or Team version of Visual Studio then Vulcan already integrates into it. Visual Studio 2008 - Vulcan.NET Edition provides those who do not already have VS with the latest development environment.

 


                                                       
    
Vulcan.NET 1.1 Trial Version - March 2008
Sunday, March 23, 2008 

The Vulcan.NET 1.1 Trial Version has been updated and includes:

  • VO compatible class libraries in sync with the latest version of VO
  • bug fixes and runtime updates
  • new project template

It can be downloaded by selecting the Trial Version menu option on http://www.govulcan.net

 


                                                       
    
Executive Summary: Benefits of Vulcan.NET
Tuesday, January 08, 2008 
A paper entitled "Benefits of using Vulcan.NET for application development" is available for download from the FAQ section of http://www.govulcan.net. It is a quick read, to wet your Vulcan.NET appetite. It is also designed for IT project managers, who may not want something as specific as our "Getting Started at Warp Speed (A programmers guide)". We have had a number of requests for "a paper for my boss to read"; this should address that need.

                                                       
    

 
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