Working with Projects

Visual FoxPro projects make it easier and faster to develop large applications. When you want create an application and manage files associated with that application, you can use projects to organize and work those files. Projects are actually tables that keep track of all files required by an application as well as dependencies, references, and connections among the files. For example, a simple project might consist of forms, programs, reports, databases, tables, queries and other files.

In This Section

• How to: Create Projects
  Explains how to create projects.

• How to: Create Files in Projects
  Explains to how to create new files in projects for application components, such as databases, tables, programs, queries, text files, and so on.

• How to: Add Files to a Project
  Explains how to add existing files to projects.

• How to: Edit Files in Projects
  Explains how to edit project files and add descriptions for them.

• How to: Search For Code References
  Describes how to search for references and text in projects and text files.

• How to: Replace Code References
  Describes how to replace code references and text that you search for in projects and text files.

• How to: View Code Definitions
  Describes how to view the definition of a code element found in a code reference search in the current program file.

• How to: Remove Files from Projects
  Explains how to remove or delete files from projects.

• Extending Projects in Visual FoxPro
  Introduces and describes how to use Project Manager hooks to extend working with projects programmatically.

Related Sections

• Working with Programs
  Introduces using program files to store code for executing series of instructions that you do not want to run immediately.

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

• Application Planning
  Describes how careful planning saves time, effort, and money and how many of the decisions you make during the planning phase will impact how you create elements of the application.

• Creating Applications
  Discusses how to create a Visual FoxPro application, which may include one or more databases, a main program that sets up the application's system environment, and a user interface comprised of forms, toolbars, and menus.

• Working with Data
  Describes how to create effective applications with indexes, tables, and databases based on your data requirements.