;-_=_Scrolldown to the Underground_=_-; Using Visual FoxPro 6 http://kickme.to/tiger/ Special Edition Using Visual FoxPro 6 Introduction Chapter 1 Quick Review of the Visual FoxPro Interface Chapter 2 Introduction to Programming Concepts Chapter 3 Defining Databases, Tables, and Indexes Chapter 4 Advanced Database Management Concepts Chapter 5 Selecting, Viewing, and Ordering Data Chapter 6 Creating Basic Queries Chapter 7 Advanced Queries and Views Chapter 8 Accessing Remote Data Chapter 9 Creating Forms Chapter 10 Creating Reports Chapter 11 Creating Menus Chapter 12 Organizing Components of an Application into a Project Chapter 13 Introduction to Object-Oriented Programming Chapter 14 OOP with Visual FoxPro Chapter 15 Creating Classes with Visual FoxPro Chapter 16 Managing Classes with Visual FoxPro Chapter 17 Advanced Object-Oriented Programming Chapter 18 The Visual FoxPro Foundation Classes Chapter 19 The Visual FoxPro Component Gallery Chapter 20 Introduction to COM Chapter 21 Visual FoxPro as a COM Client Chapter 22 Creating COM Servers with Visual FoxPro Chapter 23 Error Detection and Handling Chapter 24 Visual FoxPro and Year 2000 (Y2K) Compliance Chapter 25 Internet Support Chapter 26 Creating Online Help Chapter 27 The Visual FoxPro Wizards © Copyright, Sams Publishing. All rights reserved. Special Edition Using Visual FoxPro 6 ● About the Authors ● Acknowledgments ● Introduction ● What is Visual FoxPro? ❍ The History ❍ Getting to Know 6 ❍ The Bottom Line ● But Isnít Visual FoxPro Dead? ● What If I Have Old FoxPro Applications? ● Who Should Read This Book? ● Conventions Used in This Book ● Tell Us What You Think! About the Authors Menachem Bazian, CPA, is director of Client Services for LNW Consulting Services, LLC, a Business and Technology Consulting Firm based in New York City. Menachem has been a developer and consultant for 13 years. He is an internationally known expert on object-oriented analysis, design, and development and has lectured extensively on the subject. He also possesses expertise in business process analysis and redesign, which he uses regularly in the service of his clients. Menachem has spoken frequently at conferences, including the FoxPro and Visual FoxPro Developer's Conferences from 1990-1998, various regional FoxPro conferences across the U.S. and Canada, the Foundation for Accounting Education, The N.Y. State Society of CPAs' annual accounting and computer shows, and others. He has written for many magazines, including Databased Advisor (now e-Biz Advisor), FoxPro Advisor, New Accountant, and more. Jim Booth is a Visual FoxPro developer and trainer. He has written articles for the major FoxPro journals and has spoken at conferences in North America and Europe. He has been the recipient of the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional Award every year since its inception in 1993. He is married and the father of three boys, and wishes he could program them as easily as Visual FoxPro. His house is also populated with two dogs, a cat, a fish, and a bird. Jeb Long has 35 years experience in software design and engineering at some of the most prestigious technical organizations in the country. Since leaving Ashton-Tate Corporation in 1990, he has worked as an independent consultant and author, and has written technical documents, several books, and articles for technical journals. While at Ashton-Tate, he was the dBASE language architect and was responsible for the dBASE language components for all versions of dBASE III and IV, except for the initial version. During 14 years at the California Institute of Technology's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, he was responsible for software tasks in support of our nation's planetary exploration program. Among these tasks were programs to calculate interplanetary trajectories, to process telemetry from space vehicles, to simulate spacecraft propulsion subsystems, and to support spacecraft tests and operations. He was actively involved in the Mariner and Viking Missions to Mars. He and his wife Elizabeth, a technical writer who works closely with Jeb in writing all of his books, now live on a hill over-looking Los Angeles. Vin Miller is a Senior Analyst at InvestLink Technologies, a New York City-based software development firm providing database, Internet, and telephony solutions for the defined contribution industry. He has programmed in FoxPro since 1990. He is the co-author of Family Planning and Population: A Compendium of International Statistics, as well as several scholarly articles on international demographics and research methods. Ceil Silver has been in the computer industry since 1967, first as a COBOL and RPG programmer, and from there filling many corporate positions involving applications software development, systems software support, and software project management. She has been an independent consultant in the NYC metropolitan area since 1989, specializing in database applications and systems analysis for a variety of industries. Her current development tool of choice is Visual FoxPro. She is also founder of the Westchester FoxPro of PADD (Professional Association of Database Developers), in Westchester County, NY. Robert A. Byers is a nationally recognized authority on database management systems for microcomputers. He is currently a partner in Balleisen-Byers, a developer of client/server database products for desktop computers. A former manager of the Mission Control and Computing Center at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, Mr. Byers has held numerous positions of responsibility in the computer and communications industries over the past 32 years. He has served on several government advisory panels for Communications and Data Handling, including the select panel on Data Handling and Avionics for the Space Shuttle and NASA's Planetary Data Systems Working Group. He was actively involved with the development of dBASE, and often acted as a spokesman for Ashton-Tate prior to their purchase by Borland. He has served as an independent consultant on microcomputer software to several major corporations, and has developed vertical market applications software for the medical and retail business communities. The author of numerous technical papers and several best-selling computer books, he also holds a U.S. patent on Distributed Signal Processing. His Everyman's Database Primer became a standard and was translated into several languages. An engineer by training, he has a B.S.E.E. from California State Polytechnic University at San Luis Obispo, M.S.E.E. from Georgia Institute of Technology, and has done additional post-graduate work in Communications Theory at U.S.C. He has been employed by Ampex Corporation, Bell and Howell, the Georgia Tech Research Institute, and JPL. Acknowledgments Writing a book is a bear of an undertaking, not only for the author but for those around him. Mere words cannot do justice to the effect these people have had on me, either through technical assistance or moral support. Still, words are all I have. First of all, to the incredibly talented team of people at my new firm, Levine Mandelbaum Neider Wohl, LLP. To the partners, Mark Levine, Jay Neider, and Lester Wohl; to Glenn Davis, Michael Giller, Tery Gingold, Valerie Jaraique, Carol Lechner, Katherine McCoy, Renee Neil, and Joe Vecchio. Thank you for welcoming me into your firm and showing trust in me. I enjoy working with you all. To David Lazar, Robert Green, Jim Saunders, Susan Graham, Randy Brown, Calvin Hcia, and so many people on the Microsoft Fox team. You guys created another super winner here. Thanks. To my incredible editors at Que. To Angela Kozlowski and her merry crew, thanks for being so understanding and for working with me. To David Blumenthal, Yair Alan Griver, Lior Hod and everyone at Flash Creative Management. Thank you for 6 1/2 fascinating years. Oh, and to Chushie (What's the count now, Alan?). To the people in the Fox community I have had the pleasure of knowing and working with: Pat Adams, Steven Black, Jim Booth, Chaim Caron, Barr y Cunningham, Sue Cunningham, Doug Dodge, Mike Feltman, Tamar Granor, Doug Hennig, Nancy Jacobsen, Jim Korenthal, John Koziol, Barr y Lee, Ken Levy, Patrick Logan, Valid Matisons, Paul Maskens, Michael Meer, Andy Neil, John Petersen, Rod Paddock, Alan Schwartz, Ceil Silver, Drew Speedie, Toni Taylor-Feltman, and many more. There are so many of you that I cannot mention you all, but you all have had a special place in helping make my work possible and fun. Once again to my friend and mentor, Martin Star. I can never say thank you enough for all you have taught me. How'm I doing, Marty? To Chaim Wasserman. For once words fail me. I have no idea what I could say that would be appropriate for all the times you have been there throughout the years. "Thank you" seems pitifully inadequate, but it's all I have. To Mark and Meryl Berow and Marc and Judith Stoll. Together we have shared much happiness and adversity. I couldn't imagine having better friends. Thanks. To Mordecai and Charlotte Glicksman, and their twins, Chana Tova and Elisheva. Thanks for sticking with me over the years. We've come a long way together and I look forward to sharing with you for a long time to come. I leave for last the people who mean the most to me. To my father, Murray Bazian, and my brothers, Ben and Sol. Thanks for all your advice and help. Even if I don't say it enough, I appreciate it. To my beloved wife, Anna: Once again you had to put up with a book and you did it with remarkable aplomb. I know that this is never easy on you and I appreciate your support. To my incredible twins, Barr y and Sam. Somewhere along the line, when God was handing out blessings, he looked at your mother and me and decided that we should have you. I don't know what I did to earn it, but I thank him every day for both of you.