Developing Applications with the Application Framework

The Application Framework is designed to include all required, and many optional, elements that make an application effective and pleasurable to use. Though the framework itself provides a great deal of flexibility and power to create applications the way that works best for you, this section discusses the ways using the Application wizard and the Application builder ease your application development.

In This Section

• Application Planning with the Application Framework
  After you run the Application wizard, you will have an open project containing a number of files that comprise the application framework.
• Data Selection with Application Builder
  After you plan your application, you must select the data sources you want in developing your application.
• Managing Documents with Application Builder
  When you have selected data sources, you must plan and choose the documents that you want to add to your application.
• Application Functionality and the Application Framework
  Before discussing the general options available for your application, it is helpful to have a conceptual understanding of how the application works.
• Application Framework Files and Classes Example
  This topic describes the various files and classes used by the application framework to create a hypothetical application.

Related Sections

• User Interface Reference
  User interface (UI) reference topics explain the options that appear on various dialog boxes, windows, and other user interfaces. These types of topics generally appear when you press F1 in a dialog box or window.
• Builders
  Builders are tools that aid in setting properties of controls on a form. Unlike wizards, builders are reentrant, so you can reopen a builder on a particular control repeatedly.
• Windows
  Understand the options that appear on various dialog boxes, windows, and other user interfaces.
• Dialog Boxes
  This section explains the options that appear on various dialog boxes.
• Designers
  Designers make it possible for you to design the windows, dialog boxes, and components in your application visually.
• Wizards
  Microsoft® Visual FoxPro® ships with several wizards. Wizards are interactive programs that help you quickly accomplish common tasks such as creating forms, formatting reports, setting up queries, importing and upsizing data, graphing, creating mail merge output, generating pivot tables, creating crosstab reports, and publishing in HTML format for the Web.