Hacker's Guide to Visual FoxPro 7.0 [Paperback]

Tamar E. Granor (Author), Ted Roche (Author), Doug Hennig (Author), Della Martin (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 1930919220 | ISBN-13: 978-1930919228 | Publication Date: January 2002 | Edition: 3rd

An irreverent look at how Visual FoxPro really works, this guide gives developers insight into every command, function, event, and method of version 7.0, including Service Pack One. Recognized within the FoxPro developer community as the indispensable resource for serious FoxPro development, this updated edition covers Visual FoxPro's Power Tools and the various components of the language, including Xbase traditions and assumptions. Also included are hardware tips and optimization guidelines. Subjects such as Active technologies as they relate to VFP, the Class Browser and Component Gallery, VFP's Builder and Wizard technologies, and VFP's version of IntelliSense are covered in detail. This replaces 0965509362.

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About the Author

Tamar E. Granor is a FoxPro and Visual FoxPro developer and has served as the editor of FoxPro Advisor. She lives in Elkins Park, Pennsylvania. Ted Roche is the coauthor of Hacker's Guide to Visual FoxPro 6.0 and a seven-time winner of the Microsoft Support Most Valuable Professional Award. He lives in Contoocook, New Hampshire. Doug Hennig is the coauthor of What's New in Visual FoxPro 7 and writes the monthly Reusable Tools column in FoxTalk. He lives in Regina, Saskatchewan. Della Martin is the co-author of Microsoft Office Automation with Visual FoxPro, has written for FoxPro Advisor and served as a judge for the 1998 and 1999 Visual FoxPro Excellence Awards. She lives in Cary, North Carolina.

Product Details

• Paperback: 372 pages
• Publisher: Hentzenwerke Publishing; 3rd edition (January 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1930919220
• ISBN-13: 978-1930919228
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 7.4 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,442,272 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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9 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent reference book, February 3, 2005

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Vasilios Agelakos (Greece) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Hacker's Guide to Visual FoxPro 7.0 (Paperback)

Probably the readers who rated the book with 1 star did not know that they could download the electronic format of the book from hentzenwerke.com.
The Hacker's Guide to Visual FoxPro 7.0 is the exhaustive guide to every command and
function in the language. It is not intended to be read cover to cover as other technical books.

It says anything that you need to know and the manual doesn't tell you for every command. Not only describes the usage of the commands but groups the related commands/functions and do perfomance comparisons between them.
It refers every known bug for each command/function and also provides the necessary workarounds.

The book is still usefull for even VFP 9.0!

The electronic format of the book, a chm file can be linked to VFP itself.

Every serious VFP developer must have this book in its side.

9 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The "VFP Bible", September 3, 2002

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Barbara Peisch "Compusician" (Oceanside, Ca United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Hacker's Guide to Visual FoxPro 7.0 (Paperback)

The "Hacker's Guide to Visual FoxPro 7.0" is an invaluable reference for VFP. Although there are some who confuse this book with a tutorial, that is not the purpose of this book at all. This book is meant to be used as a reference once you're familiar with VFP and is the only reference book available for VFP 7, other than the online help that comes with the product. But this book gives you so much more than the online help. There are many little quirks and tricks to using commands and functions that you just won't find out about anywhere else. There also aren't many books that will tell you about product bugs and workarounds, but "Hacker's Guide" does! And it's all presented in a very lighthearted and entertaining style. This book is a must-have for any VFP programmer!

5 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars waste of money, January 23, 2005

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K. E. Perrins "Kent" (Florida) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Hacker's Guide to Visual FoxPro 7.0 (Paperback)

This is nothing but gibberish. More like someone talking about what they know about VFPro in the vaguest of terms. There is no chapter on, 'how to do your first program' or whatever as refered to by one reviewer. I wonder if those 4 star reviewers where paid pumpers or dear friends of the author. I will admit that I did not get past page 54 of the book. That is where I stopped because I found nothing of relevance that would help me improve my skills as a VFP programmer. I consider myself an advanced beginner, so if you are a beginner, do not even attempt to read this book. There is very little continuity, jumping from one useless tip to another without any real usefull or pratical application. It is as if it was put together haphazzardly from a pile of notes, jumpled in with the laundry list.
You can do better looking for free links on google than paying money for this.
However, on the up side, maybe some day when I have nothing else to do, I will spent a little more time reading the book.
Just my humble opinion.