FoxProDatabaseExtractor

Tool written in C# with .NET 6.0 that reads a FoxPro 9 database file and dump the contents of all the user tables into individual csv files.

Requirements

• .NET 6.0 SDK: https://dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/download/dotnet/6.0
• Visual FoxPro 9.0 - Note that Microsoft does not offer the installer anymore.

Build

Since Visual FoxPro 9.0 was built for x86 only, this project needs to be built for that platform as well.

• If building from Visual Studio directly, the only platform specified in the solution is x86, so you can build directly into that platform without any manual changes.
• If building using the dotnet command directly from the src folder, you need to pass the --arch x86 arguments to force building in x86.

Usage

FoxProDatabaseExtractor.exe <vfpDatabaseFile> <targetCsvFolder>

Example:

FoxProDatabaseExtractor.exe path/to/database.dbc path/to/directory/to/dump/csv/files/

Note: Only works on Windows because Visual FoxPro is a Windows-only database system.