Microsoft Visual Fox Pro 8 0

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Agenda u u u Visual Fox. Pro 8. 0 Highlights Europa Overview Visual Fox. Pro Resources

Visual Fox. Pro 8. 0

Visual Fox. Pro 8. 0 Overview u u u Based on customer feedback New runtime features for end users Enhanced SQL Server connectivity Increased. NET interoperability Improved documentation Maintained backward compatibility

Visual Fox. Pro 8. 0 Themes u u u Improve Developer Productivity Provide a Better Smart Client Increase Discoverability Improve XML Support Improve SQL Server Integration Improve. NET Interoperability

Productivity (1/2) u u u Toolbox Empty class Add. Property() and Remove. Property() Collection class Structured Error Handling v u Event Binding v u TRY…CATCH…FINALLY BINDEVENT() and RAISEEVENT() Data. Environment subclassing

Productivity (2/2) u u u New Auto-increment for tables Enhanced View Designer Child member subclassing VCX support for more classes Code References tool XML Web services enhancements

Smart Client – Forms (1/2) u u u Windows XP theme support Tab orientation on page frames Grid enhancements v v v u u Auto-resize columns Column locking Highlighting grid rows Form Bind. Controls property GDI+ image support (GIF, TIFF, JPEG)

Smart Client – Reports (2/2) u u u u Page X of Y Allow user to suppress printing dialog Chain multiple reports as one print job Print Page Header and Footer when Summary Band is on it's own page Stretchable page Footer and Summary Use DBC Field Caption Properties when dropping fields into a Report Option for printer environment saving

Discoverability – Task Pane u u u u u Start Pane - News items for VFP Community Environment Manager Solution Samples XML Web Services Filer Minesweeper More free panes at http: //taskpane. com Whitepaper on VFP MSDN Web site

XML Support - XMLAdapter u u Beyond XMLTo. Cursor/Cursor. To. XML Hierarchical XML support v v u XML diff grams v v u u Multiple VFP data cursors to XML to multiple VFP data cursors, tables, DBC ADO. NET compatible XMLTable and XMLField classes Full control of XSD schema used

SQL Server Integration Cursor. Adapter u Similar to Data. Adapter in ADO. NET v v u u ADO/OLEDB ODBC Native VFP cursors XML and XML Web services Programmable events Stored procedures control

Cursor. Adapter Class Data Source DBF Remote Views Native SQL Native XML VFP Client ODBC DBF SQL Pass. Through VFP Cursors ADO/OLEDB HTTP Cursor. Adapter Auto-Update Object Methods/Events Custom Commands Stored Procedures VFP Cursors

VFP +. NET Interop (1/3) u Greatly enhanced XML support v v u VFP OLE DB Provider v v u u XML Web services ADO. NET compatibility with XMLAdapter ASP. NET Web forms. NET Windows forms Visual Fox. Pro Toolkit for. NET VFP and. NET teams working together

VFP +. NET Scenarios (2/3) u u Win. Forms, Web. Forms, and Mobile forms calling VFP COM objects via ASP. NET XML Web services Win. Forms and Web. Forms with VFP data using the VFP OLE DB provider VFP calling ASP. NET XML Web services VFP 8. 0 with VS. NET 2003 make great tools together for many applications

VFP +. NET - XML Web Services (3/3) u u u OLEDB ASP. NET Win. Form Phone Pocket PC Tablet PC

VFP 8. 0 Service Pack 1 u u u Updated patch files for VFP 8. 0 No new features in service pack Not included with VFP 8. 0, online only v u u http: //msdn. microsoft. com/vfoxpro No additional SPs planned for VFP 8. 0 Includes new VFP OLE DB Provider v Provider can be downloaded stand-alone

Europa Overview u u Code name of next version of VFP To be released second half of 2004 Mostly based on feedback More information on VFP Web site v http: //msdn. microsoft. com/vfoxpro v Refer to Letter from Editor section

Visual Fox. Pro Resources u http: //msdn. microsoft. com/vfoxpro v v u http: //gotdotnet. com/team/vfp v v v u VFP Toolkit for. NET VFP 8. 0 case study template download Sr VP Eric Rudder on VFP 8. 0 video http: //code-magazine. com/focus/vfp v u New information and content for VFP 8. 0 Related communities for Visual Fox. Pro Special edition for Visual Fox. Pro 8. 0 http: //foxcentral. net – Fox. Central. net