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Are you serious about working in Visual FoxPro? Do you want to really put FoxPro through its paces, but find yourself frustrated by commands that don't work the way you expect or documentation that seems incomplete? Would you rather fight with this exceptional program than switch? If so, the Hacker's Guide to Visual FoxPro 3.0 is for you.
Hacker's Guide to Visual FoxPro 3.0 is the definitive reference to how all the commands, functions, properties, events, and methods in Visual FoxPro 3.0 really work. FoxPro experts Tamar Granor and Ted Roche show you which commands to use, which to avoid, and which ones don't work quite the way the manual says they do. You'll learn about common and not-so-common bugs and how to work around them, plus you get an introduction to OOP, SQL, and Client/Server, as well as productivity hints, tips for creating your own Builders and Wizards, and advanced coverage of OLE and OLE Automation. If you want to make your FoxPro programs scream (and not vice versa) then the Hacker's Guide to Visual FoxPro is for you.
Hacker's Guide to Visual FoxPro 3.0 comes with a bonus disk that includes examples from the book, shareware and freeware FoxPro tools, and cool subclasses that you can use in your own programs.
Tamar E. Granor is Editor of FoxPro Advisor magazine. She is a frequent speaker at FoxPro conferences and a consultant specializing in FoxPro. Ted Roche is Director of Development at Blackstone, Incorporated, a Microsoft Certified Professional, author, and international lecturer specializing in FoxPro. Tamar and Ted write FoxPro Advisor's "Ask Advisor" column and are both winners of the Microsoft Support "Most Valuable Professional" award for their contributions to CompuServe®'s FoxPro forums. For more information on Ted and what he does, visit his home page.
"It is an outstanding resource for programmers at any level, a definite 'must have' for the serious Fox enthusiast...I have been working with FoxPro and VFP for 10 years, and thought I knew everything by now. However, I can't read more than 3 or 4 of the book's 900 pages without learning something new. Get it and read it!"
-- Jim Slater, Rocky Mountain Fox User Group
"Tamar and Ted...provide clear and concise explanations of subjects such as
SQL, the new event model, and parameterized views. I especially appreciate the
real-life examples of why to use a feature in a particular way. They truly aid
understanding...This book will be a valuable resource to Visual FoxPro®
users."
--From the Foreword by Susan Graham, Visual FoxPro Program Manager
"An impressive collection of nuts-and-bolts information and useful recommendations. Of particular value is the significant amount of largely undocumented behaviors every FoxPro developer needs to know."
-- Drew Speedie, MaxTech, Inc.
"Tamar and Ted, I have to tell you how valuable your book has been to me. I've referred to it countless times since I got it. It's saved me literally hours over the past 3 days alone. It is a wonderful reference book as well as a learning tool. I can't thank you enough for writing that book! I was wondering if you would be able to match the 2.5 reference book you did with John Hawkins, but indeed you have outdone yourself!"
-- Chaim Caron, President, Access Computer Systems, Inc.
"The Hacker's Guide to Visual FoxPro 3.0 is a true developer's reference
manual. After a while, I couldn't put it down. I kept thinking, "I wonder
what they say about..." or "I'll bet they mention the bug that..." and I'd
start jumping from topic to topic. It's like every fall when I buy Leonard
Maltin's movie book and jump from review to review to see what he said about
movies released in the previous year. Next thing I know, 3 hours have passed."
-- Brad Schulz, FoxPro Developer
"Tamar & Ted have tried every VFP command, function, property, event, and
method and verified that they work as they should and documented the bugs
in each. This book is a MUST for all VFP developers."
-- Craig Berntson, Teltrust, Inc., Salt Lake City Fox User Group