Microsoft Visual FoxPro version 5.0 object-oriented database development system continues the leadership tradition of version 3.0. It features powerful ActiveX™ extensibility, increased performance, improved connectivity features, and an enhanced development environment.

Microsoft Visual FoxPro has long been the fast, powerful choice for developers. This latest version extends the object-oriented power of version 3.0.

Now with ActiveX, developers can choose from a wide range of language tools, applications, and reusable parts to build rich interactive applications more quickly and easily. And you can use ActiveX objects and controls to extend your solutions written in Visual FoxPro. You can even drive Microsoft Office and other applications using automation and edit them "in place" from Visual FoxPro. Thousands of available third-party ActiveX controls extend this power even further.

Plus, you can develop applications with greatly improved connectivity features such as offline views and multi-tier client/server functionality — even servers that work over the Internet. These features give you the power to develop for a future of mobile, remote, and Internet users. You'll enjoy the enhanced development environment as well. Debug much more quickly by viewing color-coded syntax and a tree view that enables you to directly modify objects, properties, and events. Built-in ease-of-use and project management features help every development project progress more quickly and smoothly, too.

Develop state-of-the-art applications. Visual FoxPro is the high-performance development environment for creating quality desktop and client/server database applications. Its rich support for ActiveX controls enables you to plug in even more functionality easily.

And Visual FoxPro is designed for maximum flexibility. Integrate data from applications, client/server databases, or local data stores. Develop applications that run on multiple platforms. Bring in projects from Visual FoxPro 3.0. You can do it all.

Even faster and more broadly compatible, Microsoft Visual FoxPro version 5.0 lets you build solutions with components from many sources, create applications with broad support, and develop for users with many needs.

The fastest, easiest, and most powerful Visual FoxPro yet.

Use the included ActiveX controls "as is" or modify them with additional properties to create a subclassed object such as this tab control.

Develop with the power and flexibility of ActiveX.
ActiveX is a set of open technologies that builds on the power and flexibility of OLE. ActiveX controls combine desktop and Web technologies for unprecedented connectivity and dramatic functionality. Now, developers can choose from a wide range of language tools, applications, and reusable components to build rich, interactive applications more quickly and easily. When you develop with ActiveX, your applications can go beyond static documents to provide users with a new generation of more dynamic, exciting, and useful interactions.

• Empower other applications with the speed and flexibility of Visual FoxPro using automation servers. Encapsulate part of an application and define public methods, then a wider audience can take advantage of your Visual FoxPro functions over a local area network or the Internet — even without the application or extensive local resources.
• Use a wide variety of ActiveX controls, including the 26 included, plus those created with other Microsoft tools and those available from third-party vendors. More than 1,000 controls are currently available, so you don't have to create every function from scratch.

Work faster and more efficiently.
Visual FoxPro has always been a leader in performance. Version 5.0 continues that tradition with significant gains in key areas.

• Forms and controls can be brought up faster than ever with improved object-rendering speed and delayed binding of form controls.
• Faster local data retrieval speed and super-fast server retrieval rates make Visual FoxPro 5.0 the ideal client/server development environment.
• Visual FoxPro 5.0 now supports ANSI joins, which execute more quickly. You can easily learn the syntax because the Query Designer builds ANSI joins for you.
• Memory efficiency has been increased by reducing the footprint on common controls such as text boxes, list boxes, and combo boxes.

Create applications quickly and discover features using Solutions, a task-oriented library of sample classes, forms, and code.  
 

To use/run Microsoft Visual FoxPro, you need:

• Personal computer with a 386DX/25 MHz or higher processor (486 or higher recommended)
• Microsoft Windows® 95 operating system or Windows NT® Workstation operating system version 3.51 or later
• 8 MB of memory (12 MB recommended) for Windows 95; 16 MB for Windows NT Workstation
• Hard-disk space:
  • Minimum installation: 15 MB
  • Typical installation: 85 MB
  • Maximum installation: 190 MB
  
• CD-ROM drive
• VGA or higher-resolution monitor (Super VGA recommended)
• Microsoft Mouse or compatible pointing device

Note: API access component requires Microsoft Windows 95 or Windows NT Workstation version 3.51 or later and Microsoft Visual C++® development system version 2.0 or later.

Networks supported: Microsoft Windows NT Server, Microsoft LAN Manager, and other NetBIOS-compatible networks, including Novell® NetWare® and LANtastic®.