• Director of Development
• Microsoft Certified Solution Developer,
  Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer
• Co-Author Hacker’s Guide to VFP 6
• Microsoft Support MVP, 1994 – present

• Business Issues – Client’s and Consultant’s
• Auditing an application
• Tools to maintain application
• Issues in maintenance
• WTF code

• Cost-benefit, ROI, business case
• Structuring a maintenance contract
• Structuring a support contract
• Slices of the pie

• Locate all source code
• Sort “live” code from old/temp code
• Process Project File or Directory
• Count #lines of code, comments, files
• DEMO

• Review documentation
  • ERD
  • User Manuals
  • Developer manuals, standards, notes

• Review code
• Project structure, framework
• Code structure
• Commenting
• Maintenance

• Existing documentation, if any
• FoxDoc / Documenting Wizard
• Filer to find code references
• Object Browser to document object model
• Hacker’s Guide / Help File

• Working with older runtimes/older environments “Gee, it doesn’t do that here”
• Hardware/OS updates not supported
  • USB Printer on a DOS application
  • WinMe locked at FILES=40

“Two wrongs don’t make a right,
but three rights make a left.”

• Business model for maintenance
• Audit unknown applications
• Build tools to assist in maintenance
• Anticipate challenges

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