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Hacker's Guide to Visual FoxPro 7.0 (Paperback)

by Ted Roche (Author), Doug Hennig (Author), Della Martin (Author) "Section 1 introduces the major themes of Visual FoxPro, starting with its history and covering the fundamentals of each of its major sub-languages..." (more)
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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.

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.

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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 (9 customer reviews)

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

By	Vasilios Agelakos (Greece) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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.

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

By	Barbara Peisch "Compusician" (Oceanside, Ca United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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!

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5.0 out of 5 stars Thousands of good tips and tricks, May 29, 2003

By	Eduard Abelmasov "edab" (Brooklyn, NY United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This is really good book. There is no chapter like "Your first Visual Foxpro application". Instead there are thousands of tips and tricks, all in systematic order. The main part of this book (about 800 pages) is in electronic file, so 372 pages are just a wrapper.If you really need to code in VFP, buy this book as reference. No doubt. To learn VFP from scratch try to find something else.

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1.0 out of 5 stars waste of money
This is nothing but gibberish. More like someone talking about what they know about VFPro in the vaguest of terms. Read more

Published on January 23, 2005 by K. E. Perrins

1.0 out of 5 stars Do NOT buy this book
This book is a complete waste of money. The book doesn't contain ANY relevant information. The authors just goes on and on about NOTHING. Read more

Published on June 6, 2003 by Fredrik

5.0 out of 5 stars Thousands of good tips and tricks
This is really good book. There is no chapter like "Your first Visual Foxpro application". Instead there are thousands of tips and tricks, all in systematic order. Read more

Published on May 29, 2003 by Eduard Abelmasov

1.0 out of 5 stars Hacker's Guide to Visual FoxPro 7.0
This is absolutely the worst reference manual I have ever used (tried to use). The description of the item is totally not what the item is and the book is absolutely worthless,... Read more

Published on February 15, 2003

5.0 out of 5 stars Essential Reference for VFP 7
The Hacker's Guide to VFP series has been and remains (with this version) the essential reference to Visual FoxPro and its vast command and function set. Read more

Published on September 3, 2002

3.0 out of 5 stars A waste of money
If you are really looking for a book on programming, this is not it. If there were more books on FoxPro 7, I could probably enjoy this book however I do not want to waste time on... Read more

Published on July 20, 2002 by Laurence S. Martin

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