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Microsoft FoxPro and Visual FoxPro

Pages describing our development, training, and support work on Foxpro databases. Covers versions from FoxPro 2.6 to Microsoft Visual FoxPro 9.00.

• Add a checkbox to a grid.
• Add buttons to the Fox desktop.
• Addresses in a consistent format.
• Advanced features of Find.
• ASCII codes.
• Assert improves VFP code.
• Autocomplete in VFP 9.
• Autocomplete table structure.
• Base classes.
• Bit manipulation functions in FoxPro.
• Calculate, an alternative to SQL.
• Calculator tool in FoxPro.
• Cannot Quit Visual FoxPro.
• Calendar and Diary.
• Checksum to improve security.
• Clipboard transfer in FoxPro.
• Converting from FPW26 to VFP.
• Converting from FPW26 to VFP - Data.
• Converting from FPW26 to VFP - Program Code.
• Converting from FPW26 to VFP - Menus.
• Converting from FPW26 to VFP - Reports.
• Converting from FPW26 to VFP - Screens.
• Converting from FPW26 to VFP - Strategy.
• Command line switches.
• Configuration file.
• Cursors in VFP SQL.
• Creating an array with SQL
• Custom controls on the FoxPro Form Design toolbar.
• Database Support for FoxPro users.
• Date functions in FoxPro.
• DLLs in Visual FoxPro.
• DLLs in Visual FoxPro - building.
• DLLs in Visual FoxPro - calling VFP from dotNet.
• DLLs in Visual FoxPro - testing.
• Displaying messages in FoxPro.
• Dynamic formatting of text in the VFP9 report writer.
• Examples of FoxPro database support
• Export data to delimited text files.
• Export data to html files.
• Export data to html files - code sample
• FAQ for FoxPro.
• Fast way to lookup Fox data.
• File extensions used by FoxPro data and programs.
• Files required to distribute a VFP application.
• Fonts for data entry.
• Forms in an executable flash on the screen and vanish.
• Foxtools.fll includes some useful (but unsupported) functions.
• Functions for file names in FoxPro.
• Functions for file names - AddBS() adds a backslash to a path.
• Functions for file names - DefaultExt() adds a default extension if the file lacks an extension.
• Functions for file names - ForceExt() gives the file a new extension - replacing any existing extension.
• Functions for file names - ForcePath() gives the file a new path repacing any existing path.
• Functions for file names - JustDrive() returns the drive letter from a path.
• Functions for file names - JustExt() returns the extension of a file.
• Functions for file names - JustFName() returns the name of a file - including the extension.
• Functions for file names - JustPath() returns the path to a file.
• Functions for file names - JustStem() returns the stem of a filename without the extension.
• Gotcha!
• Hide the main FoxPro window.
• HTML from FoxPro.
• Intellisense.
• List box driven by a SQL cursor.
• Lotus Approach data in Visual FoxPro.
• Low level file handling.
• Low level file handling - FCREATE()
• Low level file handling - FOPEN()
• Low level file handling - FREAD()
• Low level file handling - FWRITE()
• Low level file handling - FCLOSE()
• Links to other FoxPro sites.
• Multiselect list boxes
• Numeric functions in FoxPro.
• Object parameters
• OLEDB connection string.
• Parameters, in a VFP form.
• Replace your FoxPro system
• Replace - don't replace FoxPro
• Replace - use Access
• Replace - use SQL Server
• Replace - wait and see
• Save files to the Windows Desktop
• Scan records in a FoxPro table.
• Service Pack 1 for VFP 8.
• Scope of FoxPro commands: All, For, Next, Rest and While.
• Starting FoxPro
• Suspend FoxPro execution with an API call.
• Switching between Development and Runtime
• Table functions in FoxPro.
• Text functions in FoxPro.
• Top ten tips
• Trivia quiz.
• Trivia answers.
• Tutorial for new users of FoxPro.
• Tutorial - Advanced features.
• Tutorial - Building an executable.
• Tutorial - Databases.
• Tutorial - Development environment.
• Tutorial - Do Case selection.
• Tutorial - Do ... While loop.
• Tutorial - For ... Next loop.
• Tutorial - Form designer.
• Tutorial - Goto statement.
• Tutorial - If ... Else ... EndIf structure.
• Tutorial - Navigation buttons.
• Tutorial - Program code.
• Tutorial - Program structure.
• Tutorial - Project manager.
• Tutorial - Scan loop.
• Tutorial - Tables.
• Tutorial - Variables.
• Upsizing VFP to SQL Server.
• Useful FoxPro commands.
• Using ODBC to connect to SQL Server.
• VFP 8
• Virtual machine for older versions of Fox
• WinZip and FoxPro.
• Wrap the calls to MessageBox.
• ZDEF and ZLOC
• Windows 8 running VFP

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