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Programming in Visual FoxPro

  • Article

You can create applications and programs by learning about and using Visual FoxPro's programming language and capabilities.

In This Section

  • Basic Programming Concepts
    Provides an overview of programming fundamentals necessary to work in Visual FoxPro, including data storage, data types, containers, operators, commands, and controlling program flow.

  • Working with Programs
    Introduces how to create and work with Visual FoxPro programs, which are text files containing instructions using the Visual FoxPro language.

  • Working with Procedures and Functions
    Introduces how to call native functions as well as user-defined functions and procedures, provides an overview and aspects of user-defined functions and procedures, and how to create functions and procedures.

  • Passing Data to Parameters
    Discusses ways and how to pass data to parameters.

  • Object-Oriented Programming
    Discusses how you can create self-contained application components that respond to user actions and to the system and which can be easily maintained and reused.

  • Accessing APIs
    Discusses how you can extend an application by taking advantage of external libraries such as Microsoft ActiveX controls or dynamic-link libraries (DLLs).

  • How to: Create Quit Routines
    Describes how to create customized quit routines when users quit your application, Visual FoxPro, or Microsoft Windows.

  • Using Visual FoxPro
    Provides an overview of Visual FoxPro features, describes concepts and productivity tools for developing, programming, and managing high-performance database applications and components.

  • Developing Visual FoxPro Applications
    Explains concepts about how to develop Visual FoxPro applications, instructions for creating databases and the user interface, and other tasks needed to create Visual FoxPro applications.

  • Development Productivity Tools
    Discusses the developer tools for application development within the Visual FoxPro application and the Visual FoxPro language.

  • Walkthroughs
    Provides common scenarios and step-by-step guides on how to create different types of applications and components.