Microsoft Visual FoxPro: Programmer’s Guide

Book Description:

This book helps you exploit Microsoft Visual FoxPro 6, a powerful end-user tool that allows you to build small-scale but effective database programs quickly and that ships with Visual Studio 6. The guide assumes little programming or database experience and provides a basic tour of programming and objects, plus database objects like tables and views. (Visual FoxPro 6 is arguably a good place to try out basic object-oriented programming techniques for the very first time.)

Later sections examine how to build user interfaces with forms and controls. The samples aren’t fancy, but this capable book gets you up and running with actual database applications. Important topics such as reports, distributing applications (using the Visual FoxPro run-time environment), and the FoxPro API are introduced. Other chapters explore ways to scale up FoxPro applications to SQL Server and Oracle and ways to access external DLLs. --Richard Dragan

The MICROSOFT VISUAL FOXPRO 6.0 PROGRAMMER’S GUIDE is a comprehensive resource for the beginning to intermediate programmer using the Visual FoxPro 6.0 development tool. It provides a thorough introduction to application development using Visual FoxPro 6.0 design tools and object-oriented programming techniques. Discover the enhanced development environment and master new capabilities, such as powerful ActiveX extensibility, increased performance, and improved connectivity.

MICROSOFT VISUAL FOXPRO 6.0 PROGRAMMER’S GUIDE documents the features and the programming interface for the latest version of Microsoft Visual FoxPro. Topics include: Programming fundamentals Introduction to Visual FoxPro 6.0 design tools and object-oriented programming Optimizing and distributing applications