Wizards

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.

By answering questions or choosing options on the series of wizard screens, you are telling the wizard to build a file or perform a task based on your responses.

Most of the wizards have several output options in the last page. These output options are often to files that can be bound into your application. For example, the Web Publishing wizard has an output script option, which creates a program (.prg) file that dynamically generates an HTML page from FoxPro data. You can include this script file in your application and run it from a menu item or button on a form.

Note that additional wizards are available at the Visual FoxPro Web site at https://msdn.microsoft.com/vfoxpro/.

In This Section

• Application Wizard
  Create a Visual FoxPro application, and use the Application Builder to include advance features in your application.
• Cross-Tab Wizard
  Create a cross-tab query.
• Database Wizard
  Create a database.
• Documenting Wizard
  Format and produce text files from your code in projects and program files.
• Form Wizard
  Create a form.
• Graph Wizard
  Create a graph.
• Import Wizard
  Import or append data.
• Label Wizard
  Create mailing labels.
• Local View Wizard
  Create a view.
• Mail Merge Wizard
  Create a mail merge file.
• One-To-Many Form Wizard
  Create a one-to-many form.
• One-To-Many Report Wizard
  Create a one-to-many report.
• PivotTable Wizard
  Create a pivot table.
• Query Wizard
  Create a query.
• Remote View Wizard
  Create a remote view.
• Report Wizard
  Create a report.
• Sample Wizard
  Create a custom wizard.
• SQL Upsizing Wizard
  Create a SQL Server database that duplicates, as much as possible, the functionality of a Visual FoxPro database.
• Table Wizard
  Create a table.
• Web Publishing Wizard
  Display data from a table or view in an HTML document.

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.
• 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.
• 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.