Hacker's Guide to Visual FoxPro 3 0

by Tamar E. Granor and Ted Roche

A guide to the commands, functions, properties, events and methods in Visual FoxPro 3.0, this text covers which commands to use, which to avoid, common and less common bugs and how to work around... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0201483793
• ISBN13: 9780201483796
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: Addison Wesley Longman
• Length: 899 Pages
• Weight: 2.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 7.3" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Fantastic reference for EXPERIENCED foxpro programers

I learned alot from this book and I have been programing foxpro from the dark ages in 1991! These guys know their stuff. If you program foxpro for money you need this book.

A must-buy for any VFP developer

Granor and Roche do an excellent job of explaining the treasures and pitfalls of VFP3. I found this book after I had been banging my head against a particular problem for several days, and was able to find the answer immediately, where no other book I had checked gave the answer. They document both how VFP3 works, and how it _should_ work. Most of the book still applies to VFP5, and presumably it will still be good under Tahoe.

A must-have for VFP developers!

Even though this isn't out yet for V5.0, it's still worth the freight. In-depth discussions of each command, property, event, method, etc. It's saved me hours of aggrevation, and I even curl up with it in my spare time!

Invaluable for FoxPro Developers

FoxPro is both wonderfully powerful and maddeningly quirky, as is well documented in this excellent volume. Having used FoxPro to develop and support commercial software products for many years, I have a large library of FoxPro books, and this one is by far the best. It is exhaustive in its coverage of concepts, features, bugs, and documentation errors, and includes many excellent examples. If you are serious about FoxPro, buy it.

THE book on Visual FoxPro 3.0

As the subtitle says, this covers the things you wish someone had put in the documentation - with explanations. It covers the problems, too - which is what makes this book so valuable. Look out for the nice big bug artwork next to the things that don't quite work as reasonable people expect it to. Still relevant for Visual FoxPro 5.0, highly recommended