What's New in Nine: Visual FoxPro's Latest Hits

Acknowledging that getting a handle on the new features of a development environment is difficult, the tips in this guide organize the new features of Visual FoxPro 9 into functional categories, revealing how and why to use each of them. Visual FoxPro 9 features improvements in many areas, for example, the Report Designer, which include multiple detail bands; built-in output to HTML, XML, and image files; object protection; an improved userinterface; extendible Report Designer; extendible run-time features; and GDI+ rendering.

Tamar E. Granor is the owner of Tomorrow's Solutions, LLC, a software development and consulting firm. She has served as the editor of FoxPro Advisor magazine and is currently the magazine's technical editor and coauthor of the popular "Advisor Answers" column. She is the coauthor of Hacker's Guide to Visual FoxPro 7.0, What's New in Visual FoxPro 8.0, and Microsoft Office Automation with Visual FoxPro. She lives in Elkins Park, Pennsylvania. Doug Hennig is a partner with Stonefield Systems Group Inc., a software consulting group, and the author of the award-winning Stonefield Database Toolkit. He is the coauthor of What's New in Visual FoxPro 8 and the author of The Visual FoxPro Data Dictionary. He writes the monthly "Reusable Tools" column in FoxTalk and is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional and Certified Professional. He lives in Regina, Saskatchewan.