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Linux Transfer for Power Users
Written by Whil Hentzen Edited by Chris Herborth
Major Linux distributions such as Red Hat, Mandrake and SuSE, among others, have released mature, full-featured versions suitable for day to day use on an average computer user's day to day computer, including not only a complete operating system but also a Microsoft Office-compatible application suite and a plethora of additional tools available for free download. At the same time, more and more people are become frustrated with Microsoft's continuing security problems and privacy, licensing and pricing issues. As a result, Linux is making serious inroads on the desktop in 2004. But today's experienced computer user doesn't have time to set up and learn a new operating system and programs alone. This book shows an ordinary computer user who is comfortable with using Microsoft Windows and associated popular applications how Linux works and how using it is similar in many ways to their current software. Click here for more details.
Build Your Own Framework with Visual FoxPro
Written by Ken Chazotte Edited by Joe Johnston
Have you been frustrated by the steep learning curve associated with most frameworks? Then build your own! Building your own framework can be a challenging…and rewarding experience. “Build Your Own Framework” provides detailed guidelines for developers who wish to develop their own framework. In each chapter, you will see how to move from requirements into design and from design into implementation as you build “MyFrame”, the sample framework included with the book. “Build Your Own Framework” also walks you through the development of several developer tools that will bring a real boost in productivity to your development efforts. Click here for more details.
Linux Transfer for Network Admins
Written by Michael Jang Edited by Elizabeth Zinkann
Linux has always been popular as a Web server, but its penetration into the desktop market continues to grow in 2003. At the same time, companies are getting increasingly tired of security problems and privacy, licensing and pricing issues with Microsoft Windows. As a result, more and more companies are taking a look at using Linux as a file server that communicates with both their Windows and Linux desktops. This book delves into how the Linux operating is constructed and how it works, all from the point of view of an administrator experienced both with computers in general and Windows architecture in particular. Then it covers the installation and configuration of a network file server, with user management as well as file and directory sharing, again, discussed with the perspective of a Windows network administrator in mind. Click here for more details.
FoxTales: Behind the Scenes at Fox Software
Written by Kerry Nietz
"Much has been written about the battles that go on between software companies over market share. FoxTales is the story about one such battle, told from the perspective of a foot soldier--my perspective." "When I started working for Fox Software as a young college grad, it was a company of barely over thirty people. It shared space in a small bank building located in the town of Perrysburg-on the edge of Ohio's farm country. It was a quaint, family-run business and its product, FoxBASE+, was a niche player." Click here for more details.
Painless Legacy FoxPro Applications On Modern Networks (ebook only)
Written by Alan Bourke Edited by Mark Austen
There are still a lot of applications written in Foxpro for DOS and Foxpro for Windows running successfully on modern networks, and a lot of people who install and support them. This book describes how FoxPro/DOS and FoxPro/Windows applications run on current versions of Windows, to describe the best approaches for configuring the environment in which a multi-user legacy FoxPro application runs, and to suggest ways of handling problems. Click here for more details.
OOoSwitch: 501 Things You Wanted to Know About Switching to Open Office.org
Written by Tamar E Granor Edited by Scott Carr, Sam Hiser
OpenOffice.org is the leading Open Source Office suite of applications, incorporating a word processor, a spreadsheet, a presentation tool, a drawing tool, a formula builder, and a sophisticated programming language. With over a million users worldwide as of the summer of 2002, OOo is providing very real competition to Microsoft Office because of its robust feature set, low price (it can be downloaded from the Internet for free or can be purchased for the cost of the CDs), and lack of onerous licensing and registration requirements. Click here for more details.
CrysDev: A Developer's Guide to Integrating Crystal Reports
Written by Craig Berntson Edited by Dan Jurden
Crystal Reports is a powerful reporting tool that can seamlessly integrate into your application. In Crystal Reports Application Development, Craig Berntson shows you how to take advantage of the RDC so you can provide your users with printing, previewing, and report design capabilities. You’ll also learn how to determine which components to distribute and how to troubleshoot problems when they occur on the user’s computer. If you’re developing reporting tools with Crystal Reports, this is a must have book. Click here for more details.
What's New in Visual FoxPro 8.0
Written by Tamar E. Granor, Doug Hennig Edited by Jim Slater
What's most important when deciding what to include in a new release? Is it bug fixes? Or programming productivity features? Or end-user functionality that will help the developer sell upgrades to applications to their customer and user base? Visual FoxPro 8.0 combines the best of all worlds. So what's new in Visual FoxPro 8.0? Lots of things! New base classes, including CursorAdapter, Collection, and XMLAdapter. Powerful new tools, including the Toolbox, Task Pane Manager, and Code References. Structured error handling featuring the new TRY ... CATCH ... ENDTRY structure. Improvements in the database engine, including SQL enhancements, a View Designer that actually works, and an updated OLE DB provider. The list goes on and on. What's New in Visual FoxPro 8 organizes the new features into functional categories and shows you how and why to use each of them. Click here for more details.
MegaFox: 1002 Things You Wanted to Know About Extending Visual FoxPro
Written by Andy Kramek, Marcia Akins, & Rick Schummer, edited by Steve Dingle
Answers the “How do I….” questions every programmer has about using Visual FoxPro with other programs, tools and applications. Contains hundreds of specific “how to” descriptions, each containing numerous tips and tricks. With its native data engine, rich object oriented language, and capabilities to produce COM servers and consume Web services, Visual FoxPro is the single most flexible programming tool available to a software developer. But nothing stands alone anymore. This book will show you how to extend the scope and power of Visual FoxPro as a development tool by integrating it with other software and technologies. Click here for more details.
.NET for VFP Developers
Written Kevin McNeish, edited by Cathi Gero
Visual FoxPro is one of the best Microsoft tools for creating desktop, client-server, and Web applications. However, it would be a mistake to ignore .NET. Microsoft has put a lot of resources into making .NET a revolutionary platform for creating both desktop and Internet application software. If you’re simply curious about what .NET offers, this book provides a strong overview of the .NET Framework and the C# and Visual Basic .NET languages, helping you to assess these new technologies through the lens of Visual FoxPro. If you’re already “sold” and are ready to learn specifics about how to use .NET in your software development projects, this book provides plenty of “how to”, “step-by-step” and “best practices” information that will help you climb the .NET learning curve and get up and running quickly Click here for more details.
The Software Developer's Guide, Third Edition
Written by Whil Hentzen, edited by Patricia A. Nowak
There are plenty of books that show you how to write applications in a specific language. They do a marvelous job of explaining the nuts and bolts of the syntax and the use of the tools to build applications with the latest features and functionality available. There are also a number of fine books that show you how to be "a computer consultant." But there are a whole host of issues specific to the business of writing, delivering and supporting custom software systems. The Software Developer’s Guide, Third Edition, is the only book that will take you on a step-by-step tour of the entire process. “DevGuide 3”, with over 150 pages of new material, shows you how to do "The Other 90%" of the work involved in producing custom software applications. Click here for more details.
What's New In Visual FoxPro 7.0
Written by Tamar E. Granor, Doug Hennig, Kevin McNeish, edited by Alex Wieder
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. Click here for more details.
WebRAD: Building Database Websites with Visual FoxPro and Web Connection
Written by Harold Chattaway, Randy Pearson, Whil Hentzen, edited by Barbara Peisch
Web Connection is an incredible product, enabling you to build high performance, feature-rich, database-enabled websites using the language you know and love - Visual FoxPro. But, as more than one developer has said, "it's a bitch to learn." This book is your personal tutor, walking you through the plumbing of the Internet and the World Wide Web, showing you how to build your first VFP-based web site step by step, and then how to add features and improve your productivity by exploiting the multitude of built-in classes that Web Connection offers. A must-read for every Web Connection developer! Click here for more details. Link to author's book site.
The Visual FoxPro Report Writer: Pushing it to the Limits and Beyond
Written by Cathy Pountney edited by Dave Aring
Reports are key to a successful software application. It doesn’t matter how efficiently the users can enter data, how much information the system can store or how many complicated calculations the system can process if there’s no way to see the final outcome. In The Visual FoxPro Report Writer, Cathy Pountney tells you how to use every nook and cranny of the report writer, and even shows you how to do things you thought were up to now impossible. If you’re serious about quality output from your VFP applications, you can’t do without this book! Click here for more details. Link to author's book site.
Hacker's Guide to Visual FoxPro 7.0
Written by Tamar E. Granor, Ted Roche, Doug Hennig and Della Martin
An irreverent look at how Visual FoxPro really works. Tells you the inside scoop on every command, function, property, event and method of Visual FoxPro 7.0. The eagerly awaited revision to the Hacker’s Guide for Visual FoxPro 6.0, this completely updated book is the one you’ll keep by your side for as long as you develop in Visual FoxPro. Click here for more details.
Debugging Visual FoxPro Applications
Written by Nancy Folsom edited by Kelly Conway
In “Debugging Visual FoxPro Applications”, Nancy Folsom takes you into the head of a successful debugger, gives you a new perspective on the mind set, and then explores the myriad of tools that Visual FoxPro programmers have at their disposal. Debugging will always be challenging, but with Debugging Visual FoxPro Applications, it will also be a more fruitful and rewarding quest. Click here for more details. Link to author's book site.
Essential SourceSafe
Written by Ted Roche, edited by Larry C. Whipple
Essential SourceSafe is the training aid and reference manual for casual users, software developers and SourceSafe administrators in installing, configuring and maintaining SourceSafe in a variety of development environments. This book covers a broad spectrum of topics, from the basics of installation and maintenance, to more advanced features such as reporting, to very advanced features like automation. Click here for more details. Link to author's book site.
Visual FoxPro Certification Exams Study Guide
Written by Cindy Winegarden and Evan Delay, edited by Tamar E. Granor
Covers both the Desktop and Distributed exams in one book! Visual FoxPro certification is the way for you to present contract customers and employers with an objective assessment of your technical skills as Visual FoxPro developer. Microsoft certification also provides contract customers and employers with additional confidence in their decision to contract with, or hire you as they solve business problems and move forward in our data-driven, digital economy. Click here for more details. Link to author's book site.
Creating Visual FoxPro Applications with Visual FoxExpress
Written by Bob Archer and Dan Jurden, edited by Mike Feltman
Visual FoxExpress has been helping FoxPro developers build feature rich Fox applications for longer than anyone else. VFE 6.0 allows developers to create complex, true multi-tier applications with the same style and flair of earlier versions. There’s a lot to VFE, though, that can’t be learned just from the tutorial and reference guide. With Creating Visual FoxPro Applications with Visual FoxExpress, you’ll learn the nuts and bolts of application development with VFE, starting with setting up a project and continuing on through user interfaces, reports, and security. Bob Archer and Dan Jurden have years of VFE experience under their belts, and it shows as you’ll learn dozens of tips and tricks while getting a firm grounding on the entire application development process. Click here for more details.
Client-Server Applications with Visual FoxPro and SQL Server
Written by Chuck Urwiler, Gary DeWitt, Mike Levy and Leslie Koorhan, edited by Chaim Caron
Visual FoxPro is the perfect front end for client-server applications. Its robust user interface, native local data engine and integral hooks into binding with remote data sources, and rich object model, combined with the powerful SQL Server database engine are an unbeatable combination. But with power and flexibility comes potential complexity. Client-Server Applications with Visual FoxPro and SQL Server will teach you how to put these two powerful tools together and take advantage of the best features of both. Urwiler, DeWitt, Levy and Koorhan together have decades of real-world client-server application building as well as the broad, in-depth knowledge gained only through hundreds of hours of classroom training. Click here for more details.
1001 Things You Wanted to Know About Visual FoxPro
Written by Andy Kramek, Marcia Akins, & Rick Schummer, edited by John Hosier
1001 Things provides the granular “how-to” techniques of every area of traditional Visual FoxPro application development. It's the perfect intermediary between Hackers Guide and Effective Techniques. The Hacker’s Guide to Visual FoxPro is the exhaustive command and function reference to the Visual FoxPro language. Effective Techniques for Application Development with Visual FoxPro shows you big picture and in-depth strategies for building apps. In between these two classics comes 1001 Things You Wanted to Know About Visual FoxPro. Contains over 500 pages of “tips, tricks and traps.” Click here for more details. Link to author's book site.
Microsoft Office Automation with Visual FoxPro
Written by Tamar E. Granor and Della Martin, edited by Ted Roche
Visual FoxPro developers are used to building large, complex applications using only VFP as their programming environment. But Windows users are demanding more – integration with other applications such as the Microsoft Office suite – Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook. Visual FoxPro can be used to automate – either visually or behind the scenes – any task or process that you could do manually in Office – plus much more. In Microsoft Office Automation with Visual FoxPro, you’ll learn how to create powerful applications that span the entire Office suite, using Visual FoxPro in the driver’s seat. Granor and Martin have used Office Automation to perform a wide variety of complex, rigorous Automation tasks, including the assembly and production of the enormous Hacker’s Guide to Visual FoxPro and large parts of the JFAST output modules used to brief the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Click here for more details.
The Fundamentals: Building Visual Studio Applications on a Visual FoxPro Foundation
Written by Whil Hentzen, edited by Doug Hennig
Whether you're completely new to Visual FoxPro, an old hand with FoxPro 2.x but new to the Visual world, or comfortable with VFP 3.0/5.0 but needing to know what's new in "Tahoe", The Fundamentals has the information you need to build LAN, Client/Server and multi-tier distributed Visual Studio applications on a Visual FoxPro foundation. The sequel to Whil’s "Programming VFP 3.0," this volume covers the basics of developing a wide range of applications quickly, covers all of the new commands, functions, features and tools of Visual FoxPro 6.0, and then describes, step-by-step, how to build a variety of applications with VFP as the foundation. Required reading for everyone opening up the box. Click here for more details.
Advanced Object Oriented Programming with VFP
Written by Markus Egger, edited by Mac Rubel
Looking for that perfect book that combines the proper amounts of OOP theory and real-world practical wisdom, all from the Visual FoxPro point of view? Look no further. You know how to create your own base classes, and you know that VFP doesn’t support multiple inheritance. But you’re looking for a guiding hand to take you to the next step. Covers multi-tiered architecture, OO design patterns, object metrics, and a whole section on OO requirements, modeling, and design, including the UML. Click here for more details. Link to author's book site.
Internet Applications with Visual FoxPro
Written by Rick Strahl, edited by Gary DeWitt
Learn how to build large, mission critical Internet database applications using Tahoe as the foundation. Covers server side web applications, including ASP (ODBC and ActiveX automation servers), FoxISAPI, and advanced web features such as cookies, authentication, and browser functionality encapsulation. Also delves into non-HTML distributed applications and remote data services. Click here for more details. Link to author's book site.
Hacker's Guide to Visual FoxPro 6.0
Written by Tamar E. Granor and Ted Roche, edited by Doug Hennig
An irreverent look at how Visual FoxPro really works. Tells you the inside scoop on every command, function, property, event and method of "Tahoe." The eagerly awaited revision to the Hacker’s Guide for Visual FoxPro 3.0, this completely updated book is the one you’ll keep by your side for as long as you develop in Visual FoxPro. Click here for more details.
Effective Techniques for Application Development with Visual FoxPro
Written by Jim Booth and Steve Sawyer, edited by Steve Dingle
You've been through a couple of intro books, perhaps worked with the samples some. Maybe even struggled through a small application. Now it's time for a pair of industry veterans to guide you through industrial strength application development. "Tahoe" provides more different ways of doing things than any 5 other development products put together. Deciding which features and techniques are appropriate for a particular situation isn’t always obvious. Let Jim and Steve share with you the insights acquired through a combined 7 years of experience with Visual FoxPro. Click here for more details. Link to author's book site.