Visual FoxExpress has been helping FoxPro developers build feature rich Fox applications for longer than anyone else. VFE 6.0 allows developers to create complex, true multi-tier applications with the same style and flair of earlier versions. There’s a lot to VFE, though, that can’t be learned just from the tutorial and reference guide. With Creating Visual FoxPro Applications with Visual FoxExpress, users learn the nuts and bolts of application development with VFE, starting with setting up a project and continuing on through user interfaces, reports, and security.
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Bob Archer is a lead programmer at Geac Enterprise Solutions, a provider of vertical and horizontal back office and e-solutions, based in Toronto, Canada. His experience includes many PC languages and several server side web scripting tools. He is the author of Developing Visual FoxPro Applications with Visual Fox Express. Dan Jurden is the senior applications developer for CICcorp, Inc. in College Station, Texas. He has been designing and developing VFP applications since version 3.0 and VFE applications for one year. He has designed and developed several client-server applications using VFE and SQL Server.
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Extremely helpful and very readable!,
By "rjean2000" (South Bend, IN USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Creating Visual FoxPro Applications with Visual FoxExpress (Paperback)
This book is a crucial part of my reference library. Although Visual FoxExpress comes with good documentation and a sample application, it lacks the step by step walkthrough with explanations on the thoughts behind the concepts. This book fills in the blanks very nicely and helps the reader to gain a better understanding of not just the "how" but also the "why". The authors do not hesitate to inject their own observances and opinions about working this powerful framework. This makes it an interesting read as well as a good reference.
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Visual FoxExpress is an object-oriented n-tier Framework for developing applications with Visual Foxpro. If you decide to use it for developing applications, you will face a steep learning curve as with any such product. The documentation is generally not geared to the newcomer.Bob Archer and Dan Jurden have provided a great service to the programming community by supplying documentation that will bring you to a fast and fairly deep understanding of Visual FoxExpress (VFE). Even experienced users may pick up some new ideas. The first chapters of the book form an outline of the major features of the framework. These are integrated with a tutorial that is included with the book. Features are discussed in text and demonstrated in the tutorial. Useful custom code snippets are presented which I find myself going back to when I add my own customization to the framework. Techniques are outlined which maintain the object oriented and n-tier nature of the product. The techniques presented are designed to scale well to client/server applications. Chapters 4 thru 8, correspond basically to the tiers of the framework; data structures, metadata, business objects, presentation objects and forms. Chapter 9 ties these together into a entire application. Chapter 10, my favorite, is called 'How It Works.' This chapter really takes you through the processes used by the Framework. The understanding gained here is essential when you want to provide your own customizations. Chapter 11 details the working of the interface controls. After some highlights of common elements of all data edit controls, the framework's quickfill textbox control, the date time features of the textbox control and toolbars are covered. Unfortunately, the authors chose not to go into any detail about menus in the final section. The menus are pretty automatic in VFE and if something had to be skipped, this was a good choice. Chapter 12 is Data Validation. It deals largely with lookups. Besides outlining how lookups work, the authors outline some techniques to overcome some shortcomings in the scalability of the standard VFE lookup methods. Chapter 13 is Working with Views. Again the authors provide techniques designed to scale well as the size of the data sources grow. They also cover methods for relating view that are conducive to code reuse and maintainibility. The limitations of the view designer are discussed and alternatives illustrated. Chapter 14, Related Data and Forms, will be very valuable to you as you try to design your user interfaces. Presenting your users with an organized, intuitive interface to maintaining records, child records, grandchild records, ... is challenging. This chapter illustrates some of the common methods you may find useful. Chapters 15 thru 20 cover more Framework topics including Security features and reporting. The authors devote chapters to extending the Framework and client/server applications. Pay attention to the tips and warnings through out the book. They WILL save you many hours of grief. This book is not the final word on VFE. I am on my third reading of this book and still learning from it. Not all the answers to my questions are here, but without it, I might not even know the questions. Many thanks to the authors for providing this roadmap to VFE.
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A must have for the Visual FoxExpress developer,
By Carolyn "CarolynT" (Lafayette, LA United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Creating Visual FoxPro Applications with Visual FoxExpress (Paperback)
I have read this book twice and will probably read it again. Everytime I read it I gain a little more insight into this great foundation and n-tier development. I especially like the explanation of the step-through logic in Chapter 10 and the explanation of each method in the various objects.I think that if you buy Visual FoxExpress and buy this book, you will reduce your learning curve by several months.
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