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Hacker's Guide to Visual FoxPro(R) 3.0

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Although the book was intended for VFP 3.0, it is an excellent introduction to FoxPro Object Oriented Programming. It is intended as a short introduction and command reference and it does that well.

I learned alot from this book and I have been programing foxpro from the dark ages in 1991! These guys know their stuff. If you program foxpro for money you need this book.

Granor and Roche do an excellent job of explaining the treasures and pitfalls of VFP3. I found this book after I had been banging my head against a particular problem for several days, and was able to find the answer immediately, where no other book I had checked gave the answer. They document both how VFP3 works, and how it _should_ work. Most of the book still applies to VFP5, and presumably it will still be good under Tahoe.

Even though this isn't out yet for V5.0, it's still worth the freight. In-depth discussions of each command, property, event, method, etc. It's saved me hours of aggrevation, and I even curl up with it in my spare time!

FoxPro is both wonderfully powerful and maddeningly quirky, as is well documented in this excellent volume. Having used FoxPro to develop and support commercial software products for many years, I have a large library of FoxPro books, and this one is by far the best. It is exhaustive in its coverage of concepts, features, bugs, and documentation errors, and includes many excellent examples. If you are serious about FoxPro, buy it.

This book is known reverently in the development shop as "The Bible". Have you ever run into a FoxPro"ism" that should work one way, but functions another? Grab for "The Bible" and right there is an in-depth description of the bug and possible workarounds. Don't attempt any serious VFP work without this book. Excellent layout and easy reference to VFP functions, commands, as well as excellent coverage of SYS(). An invaluable reference for Visual FoxPro 3.0, but don't overlook it if you're still using FoxPro 2.6 or have moved on to Visual FoxPro 5.0

As the subtitle says, this covers the things you wish someone had put in the documentation - with explanations.
It covers the problems, too - which is what makes this book so valuable. Look out for the nice big bug artwork next to the things that don't quite work as reasonable people expect it to.

Still relevant for Visual FoxPro 5.0, highly recommended