Programming Solution Samples

These Solution samples illustrate application development tasks you can perform with Visual FoxPro.

In This Section

• Bind, Raise, Unbind, and Retrieve Events Sample
  Demonstrates binding events, raising events programmatically, unbinding events, and retrieving events.

• Member Classes Sample
  Demonstrates how specifying and subclassing member classes makes it possible for you to select a parent container, set the member class library, increase or decrease the member count, and view behavior at design time or run time.

• OLE Drag-and-Drop Events Sample
  Demonstrates ways to use OLE drag and drop by adding code to the OLEDragDrop and OLEDragOver events.

• OLE Drag-and-Drop Data Formats Sample
  Demonstrates how to use OLE drag and drop to report data about the dragged item by adding code to the OLEDragDrop and OLEDragOver events.

• Pass Strongly Typed Arrays Sample
  Demonstrates how you can pass a strongly typed array by reference to a COM server using the COMARRAY function. This sample also demonstrates the interface declaration syntax for specifying ByRef type arrays in the generated COM type library.

• SCATTER NAME...ADDITIVE Sample
  Demonstrates how to update and saves some form properties from and to a table using the SCATTER command with the NAME and ADDITIVE clauses and the GATHER command with the NAME clause.

• Structured Exception Handling Sample (Visual FoxPro)
  This sample demonstrates how to catch exceptions using the TRY and CATCH blocks, clean up resources using the FINALLY block, and throwing, or escalating, exceptions using a THROW statement.

• Taskbar Icon Sample
  Demonstrates some common uses of the Systray class, which supports using icons in the Taskbar Notification Area. The Systray class also supports mouse events, balloon tips, and Visual FoxPro shortcut menus for your Taskbar icon so you can use all the features of the Visual FoxPro Menu Designer.

• Windows XP Themes Support Sample
  Demonstrates different levels of Visual FoxPro support for Windows XP Themes.

Related Sections

• Solution Samples
  Contains samples that demonstrate particular features of Visual FoxPro and can be run independently.

• Sample Class Libraries
  Contains sample class libraries that provide encapsulated functionality you can add to your applications.

• Foundation Class Samples
  Contains samples that illustrate use of the Visual FoxPro Foundation classes.

• Walkthroughs
  Contains step-by-step instructions for common scenarios.