What’s most important when deciding what to include in a new release? Is it bug fixes? Or programming productivity features? Or end-user functionality that will help the developer sell upgrades to applications to their customer and user base? Visual FoxPro 8.0 combines the best of all worlds. So what’s new in Visual FoxPro 8.0? Lots of things! New base classes, including CursorAdapter, Collection, and XMLAdapter. Powerful new tools, including the Toolbox, Task Pane Manager, and Code References. Structured error handling featuring the new TRY…CATCH…ENDTRY structure. Improvements in the database engine, including SQL enhancements, a View Designer that actually works, and an updated OLE DB provider. The list goes on and on. What’s New in Visual FoxPro 8 organizes the new features into functional categories and shows you how and why to use each of them. No matter what your area of interest, there’s a lot of new stuff in the latest to appear from the Fox labs in Redmond—and you won’t find a better, more concise guide of what’s new, and how to use it, than in this compendium put together by two of the finest Fox developers on the planet.
About the Authors
Tamar E. Granor, Ph.D., is the owner of Tomorrow’s Solutions, LLC. She has developed and enhanced numerous FoxPro and Visual FoxPro applications for businesses and other organizations. She currently focuses on working with other developers through consulting and subcontracting. Tamar served as Editor of FoxPro Advisor magazine from 1994 to 2000. She is currently the magazine’s Technical Editor and co-author of the popular “Advisor Answers” column.
Tamar is co-author of the Hacker’s Guide To Visual FoxPro 7.0 (and its award-winning predecessor), What’s New in Visual FoxPro 7.0 and Microsoft Office Automation with Visual FoxPro. She is the Technical Editor of Visual FoxPro Certification Exams Study Guide (all from Hentzenwerke Publishing).
Doug Hennig is a partner with Stonefield Systems Group Inc. He is the author of the award-winning Stonefield Database Toolkit (SDT), the award-winning Stonefield Query, and the CursorAdapter and DataEnvironment builders that come with Microsoft Visual FoxPro 8. Doug is co-author of The Hacker’s Guide to Visual FoxPro 7.0 and What’s New in visual FoxPro 7.0. He was the technical editor of The Hacker’s Guide to Visual FoxPro 6.0 and The Fundamentals (all from Hentzenwerke Publishing). Doug writes the monthly “Reusable Tools” column in FoxTalk. He has spoken at ever Microsoft FoxPro Developers Conference (DevCon) since 1997 and at user groups and developer conferences all over North America.