What's new in Visual FoxPro 7.0 / Tamas E. Granor, Doug Hennig, and Kevin McNeish. ; edited by Alex Weider.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Granor, Tamar E.

Contributor:

Hennig, Doug.

McNeish, Kevin.

Weider, Alex.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Visual FoxPro for Windows.

Database management.

Physical Description:

255 p.

Place of Publication:

Whitefish Bay, WI : Hentzenwerke Pub., Inc., c2001.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

What's new in Visual FoxPro 7.0? Lotsa stuff!!!!! Read All About It Here! Visual FoxPro 7.0 has been called the most revolutionary upgrade since 3.0. Whether you agree or not, there's a lot of new stuff in the latest to appear from the Fox labs in Redmond - and you won't find a better, more concise guide of what's new, and how to use it, than in this compendium put together by three of the finest Fox developers on the planet.

Contents:

Intro

Our Contract with You, The Reader

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

About the Authors

How to Download the Files

Foreword

Introduction

Organization

Get the picture

What about the code?

Go to it

Section 1 Developer Productivity

Chapter 1 IntelliSense

What IntelliSense offers

Automatic keyword completion

Command and function syntax tips

List of members

Early binding

Values list

Most recently used file list

Table, field, and variable lists

Configuring IntelliSense

IntelliSense Manager

Configuring IntelliSense programmatically

Scripting IntelliSense

Creating your own shortcuts

Hooking into the default script

Other IntelliSense-related items

Summary

Chapter 2 Editor Enhancements

Writing code

Parenthesis matching

Dirty file indicator

Live hyperlinks

Formatting code

Tabs vs. spaces

Visible white space

More options to set

More menu items

Working with existing code

Moving around in the editor

Marking points

Finding text

Finding places

Better access to files

Chapter 3 New and Better Tools

Modern menus

Class and Form Designers

Drilling down into containers

Identifying ActiveX PEMs

Identifying inherited methods

Preserving case in parameters statements

"Real" grid coordinates

Project Manager

Report Designer

Distributing applications

Creating an InstallShield Express project

Organize your setup

Specify application data

Configure the target system

Customize the setup appearance

Define setup requirements

Prepare for release

Other InstallShield Express information

Window behavior

Dockable windows

Properties Window enhancements

Other window enhancements

Task List

Improved debugging

Active Accessibility and the Accessibility Browser.

Automated testing

Modify Procedure and View

New FFC classes

New samples

Chapter 4 More IDE Changes

Things that aren't there anymore

Windows 2000 logo requirements

Interaction with Windows

What's left?

Shareable resource file

Persistent Command Window

Menu changes

Options dialog changes

Starting VFP

Final IDE thoughts

Section 2 Developing Desktop Applications

Chapter 5 Data

New and enhanced language elements

ASessions()

ATagInfo()

Browse

GetNextModified()

In clause

IsReadOnly()

SQL Select

Set Reprocess

SYS(3054)

Use

Validate Database Recover

Database events

DBC event descriptions

Using DBC events

VFP OLE DB provider

Using the OLE DB provider

Stored procedures and database events

Chapter 6 OOP Enhancements

Creating classes

Exploring classes

New and enhanced PEMs

Multi-class changes

Form and toolbar changes

Changes to controls

ProjectHook changes

Chapter 7 Strings

Text-merge improvements

Parsing strings

Miscellaneous string changes

Summing up

Chapter 8 Resource Management

Compiler and variable management

#Include

Compile

_VFP.LanguageOptions

File system management

ADir()

ANetResources()

DiskSpace()

GetDir() and CD ?

DLL management

ADLLS()

Clear DLLS

Declare DLL

Language management

GetFont()

Language resource files

SYS(2300)

Input and display

DisplayPath()

InputBox()

SYS(602)

Windows setting management

_DblClick and _IncSeek

Set('Century')

Memory management

SYS(1104)

SYS(2600)

Other changes

_Screen and _VFP

AStackInfo()

Home()

Set Help

Splash screen

Run time files

Version()

Chapter 9 Arrays

Returning arrays from functions.

Better searching and sorting in arrays

Improved searching

Case-insensitive sorts

Chapter 10 Bits and Pieces

BitOr(), BitXor(), and BitAnd()

CToT()

ExecScript()

MessageBox()

OS()

Quarter()

Section 3 Developing Components

Chapter 11 Building Component-Based Software

Creating monolithic applications

Creating component-based, n-tier applications

An introduction to business objects

Benefits of using business objects

Bridging the semantic gap

Beating the "where's the code" problem

Normalizing application logic

Business objects in COM servers

Location transparency with DCOM

Understanding MTS and COM+

What does .NET mean for COM?

The Common Language Runtime

The .NET component standard

Chapter 12 Building World-Class COM Servers in VFP 7

Building a COM server

In-process and out-of-process servers

Storing VFP 7 COM classes

Understanding type libraries

Registry files

Introducing the Object Browser

Opening type libraries

Viewing type libraries

Viewing class details

Object Browser caching

Understanding constants and enums

Searching type libraries

Setting Object Browser options

Installing add-ins for the Object Browser

The FoxRuntime Registry key identifier

Method and property visibility

Specifying visibility in Visual FoxPro 6

Specifying visibility in Visual FoxPro 7

Specifying read-only and write-only properties

Specifying property and method attributes

Using COMATTRIB arrays to specify attributes

Specifying method attributes

Strong typing

Returning VOID from methods

Passing strongly typed parameters by reference

Using the Session class in COM servers

Passing arrays to COM servers

Returning information about a COM object

Accessing COM components from .NET.

.NET assemblies and manifests

.NET early and late binding

Using the Type Library Importer to achieve early binding

Using the IL Disassembler tool

Accessing your COM server from ASP.NET

Advanced server capabilities

Using the new COMPROP() function

SYS(2336)-critical section support

SYS(2339)-clean up references to unused libraries

SYS(2340)-specifying NT service support

Chapter 13 Implementing Interfaces

Understanding interfaces

Interfaces in Visual FoxPro COM servers

Understanding interface inheritance

Supporting multiple interfaces

Creating new interfaces for new versions of COM components

Implementing interfaces in Visual FoxPro 7

Supplying default implementations for interface members

Avoiding compiler errors

Using the Object Browser to implement interfaces

Protecting implemented interface methods

Creating interfaces in Visual FoxPro

IUnknown, vtables, and early binding

IDispatch and late binding

Visual FoxPro as an early-binding client

Early binding with CREATEOBJECTEX()

Early binding with GETINTERFACE()

Advanced COM server commands

SYS(3095)-IDispatch pointer

SYS(3097)-add reference to object

SYS(3098)-release object reference

Chapter 14 Playing in the COM+ Sandbox

COM event binding

Incoming and outgoing interfaces

Connectable Objects

Outgoing interfaces and Visual FoxPro

Event binding with EventHandler()

The downside of event binding

Introducing COM+ services

COM+ applications

Creating a COM+ application

COM+ Events

A COM+ Events example

Persistent and Transient Subscriptions

The Persistent Subscriber COM+ Events example

Looking under the hood

Creating and configuring the BookPub Event class

Creating and configuring a BookSub1 Subscriber

Running the Persistent Subscriber example.

Filtering events

The Transient Subscriber COM+ Events example

Setting up the Event and Publisher

Setting up the Subscriber

Running the Transient Subscriber example

Queued Components

Queued Component interfaces

A Queued Components example

Setting up the Queued Components example

Running the Queued Components example

Running the Queued Components example with Listener off

Turning the Listener back on

Chapter 15 Working with Web Services

Introducing XML

The structure of an XML document

Elements

Attributes

Comments

Well-formed XML

Reserved characters

Element-centric and attribute-centric XML

Schemas and valid XML

XML namespaces

XML functions in Visual FoxPro 7

CursorToXML()

XMLToCursor()

XMLUpdateGram()

VFPXMLProgID

Introducing Web Services

Real, live Web Services!

Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP)

Using the SOAP Toolkit 2.0

Installing the SOAP Toolkit

Web Services Description Language (WSDL)

Web Services Meta Language (WSML)

SOAP Listeners

Visual FoxPro 7.0 Web Services extensions

Registering a Web Service

Calling Web Services

Publishing Web Services

The Web Services project hook

Appendix: New Installation Features

Installing VFP 7

Installing other components

Other installation issues

Summary.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

ISBN:

1-280-54415-5

9786610544158

1-930919-19-0

OCLC:

923121695