Megafox: 1002 Things You Wanted to Know About Extending Visual Foxpro

With its native data engine, rich object-oriented language, and capabilities to produce COM servers and consumer Web services, Visual FoxPro is the single most flexible programming tool available to software developers. But in today's programming environment, nothing stands alone. This guide will show developers how to extend the scope and power of Visual FoxPro as a development tool by integrating it with other software technologies. This much-anticipated sequel to 1001 Things You Wanted to Know About VFP both expands coverage of topics such as data driving and reporting and introduces new topics such as e-mail, IntelliSense, charts and graphs, PDF technology, MSDE, COM/DCOM, XML/ADO, and designing for extensibility.

Marcia Akins is a consultant and software developer and the coauthor of 1001 Things You Wanted to Know About Visual FoxPro. She has written articles for both FoxPro Advisor and FoxTalk. She lives in Cleveland, Ohio. Andy Kramek is a MCSE for Visual FoxPro in both desktop and distributed applications. He is the coauthor of The Revolutionary Guide to Visual FoxPro OOP and 1001 Things You Wanted to Know About VFP. He lives in Cleveland, Ohio. Rick Schummer is a partner at Geeks and Gurus, which provides IT services such as databases, custom and shrink-wrapped software, networks, VFP mentoring, and Web-related services. He lives in Detroit, Michigan.