Acknowledging that getting a handle on the new features of a development environment is difficult, the tips in this guide organize the new features of Visual FoxPro 9 into functional categories, revealing how and why to use each of them. Visual FoxPro 9 features improvements in many areas, for example, the Report Designer, which include multiple detail bands; built-in output to HTML, XML, and image files; object protection; an improved userinterface; extendible Report Designer; extendible run-time features; and GDI+ rendering.
Customer Reviews
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Rating: - Not What I Expected
I have been out of the Foxpro world since 5.0. I was looking for a reference that would help get me up to speed and provide some assistance, some example code. This was not what I expected, and it seems a little light given the "stars" who contributed to it.
Why can't the Foxpro community come out with a book like Ben Forta's Web Application Construction Kit for Cold Fusion? He shows you how to use the product, goes into each command and function, gives you example after example, tells ... Read More
Rating: - A Quick Guide to the New Features
In spite of Microsoft's relative lack of marketing attention the Fox Pro database software has had it's development continued and has certainly maintained a loyal customer/development base.
This book discusses the latest release of Visual FoxPro, which is now in Version 9. It concentrates, as you might guess from the title on What's New in Version 9.
This book has four main sections:
1. tools you use to create applications
2. the Report Designer which ... Read More
- Not What I Expected
- A Quick Guide to the New Features
