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.
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Tamar E. Granor is the owner of Tomorrow's Solutions, LLC, a software development and consulting firm. She has served as the editor of FoxPro Advisor magazine and is currently the magazine's technical editor and coauthor of the popular "Advisor Answers" column. She is the coauthor of Hacker's Guide to Visual FoxPro 7.0, What's New in Visual FoxPro 8.0, and Microsoft Office Automation with Visual FoxPro. She lives in Elkins Park, Pennsylvania. Doug Hennig is a partner with Stonefield Systems Group Inc., a software consulting group, and the author of the award-winning Stonefield Database Toolkit. He is the coauthor of What's New in Visual FoxPro 8 and the author of The Visual FoxPro Data Dictionary. He writes the monthly "Reusable Tools" column in FoxTalk and is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional and Certified Professional. He lives in Regina, Saskatchewan.
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This review is from: What's New in Nine: Visual FoxPro's Latest Hits (Paperback)
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 you how to tie in to common and some uncommon areas, and generally provides the book that the software publisher SHOULD have published in the first place. C'mon, Foxpro authors! Kick it up a notch!
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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 had a major upgrade 3. data, including new data type, new index, and a host of other changes. 4. Everything else such as changes to the data model, new and modified commands. The publisher of this book, Hentzenwerke seems to have found a niche as perhaps the leading publisher of books on Visual FoxPro. They also maintain a web site with a specific section on this book including errata, updates and FAQs. This is a very handy book for the VFP developer to find out what's new without having to pour through standard documentation to find out.
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Prior to Visual FoxPro 9, the build process (whether you used the Build button in the Project Manager, the BUILD command, or the project object's Build method) did not write out the error log until it was done. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Data Explorer, Project Manager, Property Sheet, Class Browser, Fox Rocks, Extending the Reporting System, Environment Manager, Anchor Editor, View Designer, Crystal Reports, Report Properties, Order Line Items, Solution Samples, File Locations, Framework Version, Server Northwind, Project Assistant, Optional Bands, Page Setup, Redistributable Downloader, Task Pane Manager, Tortuga Restaurante, Value Description, Cancel Figure, Close Figure New!
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Prior to Visual FoxPro 9, the build process (whether you used the Build button in the Project Manager, the BUILD command, or the project object's Build method) did not write out the error log until it was done. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Data Explorer, Project Manager, Property Sheet, Class Browser, Fox Rocks, Extending the Reporting System, Environment Manager, Anchor Editor, View Designer, Crystal Reports, Report Properties, Order Line Items, Solution Samples, File Locations, Framework Version, Server Northwind, Project Assistant, Optional Bands, Page Setup, Redistributable Downloader, Task Pane Manager, Tortuga Restaurante, Value Description, Cancel Figure, Close Figure New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- Microsoft Office Automation with Visual FoxPro by Tamar Granor in Front Matter
- Deploying Visual FoxPro Solutions by Rick Schummer in Front Matter
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