The Fundamentals : Building Visual Studio Applications on a Visual FoxPro 6.0 Foundation
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| Rating | : | 4.25 (636 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0965509354 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 772 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
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He's the author of Stonefield's Database Toolkit for Visual FoxPro and Stonefield Data Dictionary for FoxPro 2.x. Hentzenwerke has hosted the semi-annual Great Lakes Great Database Workshop since 1994. in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada. The firm has commercial products and custom applications in use throughout the United States and in nearly two dozen foreign countries. He's a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP.) You can reach Doug at dhennig@stonefield . He is the author of books about Visual Studio (Visual FoxPro 6.0 Fundamentals), Visual FoxPro (Programming Visual FoxPro 3.
Hentzenwerkes Comes Through! William deVries Although I have programmed in several other languages, I am a newbie to FoxPro. I just purchased 7.0, and needed to get up to speed quickly, so I bought a few 6.0 based books. Hentzen has demonstrated a thorough grasp of every detail of the entire development environment that will probably impress a seasoned FoxPro developer, as well as the patience to explain it to newcomers like me. An excellent buy!. "Finally, a guide that gets you started - with a few caveats" according to A Customer. Though the software has a devoted following dating back over a decade to the days of dBase, FoxPro has never gotten the credit (or the market share) it deserves among the database/developer community.Because of this virtually no books are available to someone just starting out. All FoxPro titles offered today only make sense to either the already-initiated, those coming from other development environments, or others who have similar experience. It seems that Microsoft is not interested in growing the market base (especially while simultaneously pushing comp. Don't waste your time on this book I am a seasoned programmer with 3+ year experience, but new to VFP. I need to learn it due to my job's needs. I was really excited when I saw all the positive comments on this book, and bought it without any hesitation. Now I have a second thought.I expected to have lots of complete examples that can help you quickly get familiar with VFP functionalities, but I am very disappointed at this point. This book lacks of good examples (at least till till Chapter 7), but has lots of lengthy text explainations which are not really helpful (unless you enjoy more rea
He has presented more than 50 papers at conferences throughout North America and Europe, including the Microsoft Visual FoxPro DevCon, the German National DevCon, Conference to the Max (the Netherlands), the Spanish National DevCon, Database & Client/Server World, FoxTeach, the FoxPro Users Conference, and the Mid-Atlantic Database Workshop. He's also the author of the Visual FoxPro Data Dictionary in Pinnacle Publishing's The Pros Talk Visual FoxP
Required reading for everyone opening up the box. Includes electronic chapters that show how to convert the original LAN application to a client-server back end and to a Web-based multi-tier architecture. The long-awaited sequel to Whil's "Programming VFP 3.0," this volume covers the basics of developing a wide range of applications quickly, covers all of the new commands, functions, features and tools of Visual FoxPro 6.0, and describes, step-by-step, how to build a traditional LAN application with VFP as the foundation. Finishes up with an overview of new Visual Studio technologies, including MTS, ADO, and all the new Windows buzzwords and how they fit in with VFP. Whether you're completely new to Visual FoxPro, an old hand with