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Visual FoxPro 6 Enterprise Edition

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While this tome is probably adequate for beginners, it was not the technical reference this experienced developer needed. I got the feeling the authors had never really developed a significant product with FoxPro as they did not discuss much syntax or the nuances of the commands. "The Hacker's Guide...." is my book of choice for dealing with FoxPro in the real world.

Not since the days when Mike Brachman was writing on integrating FoxPro and the Windows API has there been such a clear and concise text. This book as loads of great examples, and most importantly, discusses how to pass structures to Windows API functions that require those type of parameters.

This book is a must for any serious Visual FoxPro Developer. Hopefully, the tradition of excellence will continue with a version 7.0 of this book in the future.

This is a great book for people that are already familiar with the Visual FoxPro environment. It provides a no bull approach to using Visual FoxPro for real. It has great coverage of the Windows API and a great set of libraries for Microsoft Office. If you want to learn how to use the advanced features of VFP quickly then this book is for you.

A picturous book, provides good analysis as far as object-oriented programming, code, SQL, and Internet capabilities. The authors do not seem to suggest Fox in any, but only as a middle-tier solution in the Client/Server development. Disagreeing with the authors, Fox in fact may be an excelent and exceptional back/front-end for small and medium size and cost-effective database applications. Overall, it is an excellent source to get started/advanced with Visual FoxPro 6.

I think that this is a great Visual FoxPro book.
If you have any questions about the book, just ask
one of the authors: Rod Paddock: http://blogs.officezealot.com/rod/

Rod is very knowledgeable about Visual FoxPro and his skills
reflect on this book. After using the book for quite some time,
I don't understand why the couple of bad reviews about this book.
Someone complained about "screens". It doesn't make sense to me.

This great book can used to help you, even if you have Visual FoxPro 9 installed.
FoxPro didn't change much in terms of concepts. Just check
what Ken Levy has to say: http://blogs.msdn.com/klevy/

The book is loaded with practical examples. If only one example
of this book will help you get through a code hurdle you may
face, I believe that's a well worth money invested.

Here's the Table of contents for Visual Foxpro 6 Enterprise Development:


Part I Analysis and Design 1
Chapter 1 Establishing Development Standards 3
Chapter 2 Analysis, Design, and Prototyping 27

Part II Object and Coding Development 57
Chapter 3 Using Visual FoxPro's Debugging Facilities 59
Chapter 4 Integrating Visual FoxPro and Object-Oriented Programming 99
Chapter 5 The FoxPro Enterprise Classes 131
Chapter 6 Communicating with Other Applications 161
Chapter 7 Using the Windows API 205
Chapter 8 Multi-User Development Techniques 245
Chapter 9 Creating Development Tools 295

Part III Database Development 339
Chapter 10 Creating a Visual FoxPro Database 341
Chapter 11 Using SQL in Visual FoxPro Applications 425

Part IV Application Deployment 451
Chapter 12 Client/Server Database Development with Visual FoxPro 453
Chapter 13 Deploying Visual FoxPro Internet Applications 491
Chapter 14 Deploying and Distributing Your Applications 525

Part V Advanced Visual FoxPro Topics 565
Chapter 15 Advanced OOP--An Introduction to Visual Modeling 567
Chapter 16 Advanced Internet with Visual FoxPro 615
Chapter 17 Drag and Drop 651
Chapter 18 Visual FoxPro and Visual Studio 6 681

Appendix What's on the CD? 711

Index

After purchasing this book, if you like it as much as I do, please
come back to this page and express your opinion (either positive
or negative). It's the minimum we can do for the great job the authors of
this book did. They deserve congrats!

The opening paragraph of chapter 1 reads as follows:

"There are many ways to distinguish a good software development project from a mediocre one. You can look at the appearance of the screens, the way the application behaves, the structure of the underlying tables, or the source code itself. Each of these items tells you something about the developers who built it."

The finished application, World Wide Shoes, which is included on the CD and purported to be the end result of working through the exercises in this book, speaks volumes about the author and the publisher. The application is amateurish and of poor quality. It represents few of the development standards outlined in the book.

I get the feeling the author has studied programming theory, but has done very little application development.

where are the code examples...on the CD...I looked everywhere...

This book start with a technical jargon of useless text. If you need to learn visual foxpro fast, DONT BUY this book. Some of the examples on the cd doesnt work!!! I wish I could return this book.