1001 Things You Wanted to Know about Visual FoxPro

by Rick Schummer, Marcia Akins, Andy Kramek

This book provides granular 'how-to' techniques for every area of traditional VFP application development. It's the perfect compliment to Hackers Guide and Effective Techniques. Contains over 500... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0965509338
• ISBN13: 9780965509336
• Release Date: June 2000
• Publisher: Hentzenwerke Publishing
• Length: 566 Pages
• Weight: 2.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 7.1" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

A keeper...

This book is not a comprehensive reference book for VFP. This book is not an instructional book for someone new to VFP. This book does not focus on any single aspect of VFP.This book IS a smorgasbord of useful tips and information that helped me out immediately. Not all of the tips were new to me, but unless you're already a very accomplished VFP programmer, you're sure to find some real gems here, many of which are not addressed in other VFP books. The example code is very specific and detailed, particularly if you download the sample files. This book is a special niche kind of a book that is hard to categorize, but for my purposes it's been fantastic.

How to do it with real examples

I note that one reviewer didn't like it because it spent too much time on showing the reader how to do things. Andy and Marcia (now husband and wife, by the way) have long been towers of strength in the CompuServe support Forums. This book shows their understanding, not only of VFP, but of us poor geeks out in the real world trying to figure out how to make it work.Structured code, good programming habits, and incorporation of OOP is here with us now, here to stay. Andy and Marcia guide the user into the methods of using these resources with example after example. I've met some people who can sit down and read a book like this from cover to cover before touching the keyboard. They are theoretical learners, and more power to them. I'm the other kind of guy. I need to get my mitts on the keyboard as soon as possible and try things out.This book is exactly what I need. At this moment it sits on my shelf with no less than 8 bookmarks in it. Andy and Marcia's influence may be seen through all my code.Ultimately, this 67 year old geek must thank Andy and Marcia for the fact that, at an age when most old guys are retired, I am still gainfully employed, and generously paid. This is the best kind of bargain!

I can't wait for the sequel!

Great format! I got immediate return on my investment because I did not have to read it from cover to cover. Since most of the sections answer a "How Do I....?" question, I could immediately find the answers I needed. I can't wait until the authors do a follow-up and expand it to include more than just native VFP tips.

1001 Things is outstanding !!

If you've been using VFP for a while you absolutely need to get this book. I've read a lot of developer computer books over the years & I'm finding myself enjoying this book the most. The book is laid out in a 'How To' format & it covers exactly the types of questions/problems developers face in everday situations along with plenty of actual coding samples.It's a must have!!

Keep it by your computer!

A handy resource for those thousand-and-one things you're pretty sure you knew how to do once. Excellent, practical code samples for manipulating reports, forms, classes, the dreaded grid, and dozens of other topics. I enjoy opening the book at random and discovering (or rediscovering) clever ways to work with FoxPro.