Microsoft Visual Foxpro 9 Support Library

Finally, I'll show how all these new features helped make it possible for the Visual FoxPro team to build Web Services support right into the product. In this article, I'll begin with all of the new features designed to make Visual FoxPro COM servers more flexible and robust, and then talk about some new native XML functions that will help make constructing n-tier applications with Visual FoxPro painless. This article will explore the new capabilities of Visual FoxPro 7.0 and show how you can use them today. But it's the new COM and XML features that really make version 7.0 worth the upgrade. All the new enhancements to the IDE, including perhaps the best IntelliSense® that Microsoft has ever released in any product, make using Visual FoxPro 7.0 much more pleasant.

The Visual FoxPro team listened to developers who wanted to build applications with Visual FoxPro that offer high-caliber features, and responded with enough goodies to give developers a way to do just that. He latest version of Microsoft® Visual FoxPro® provides a set of new features that make it a better choice than ever for writing desktop and enterprise applications. Lastly, an enhanced session class plus several new XML functions make Visual FoxPro a great choice for Web application development. IDE features like the new object browser combine convenience and efficiency, and other language features such as event handlers and early binding to COM objects increase performance. Now COM servers built with Visual FoxPro are more flexible and robust thanks to strong typing and the ability to implement interfaces from other type libraries. There are many new features designed to support COM, XML, and Web Services.

SUMMARYVisual FoxPro 7.0 represents a significant improvement over version 6.0. This article assumes you're familiar with COM, XML, and Visual FoxPro Visual FoxPro 7.0: Program Your Data with Powerful New COM, XML, and Web Services Support

Microsoft Visual Foxpro 9 Support Library