Visual FoxPro Language Enhancements

Visual FoxPro provides new functionality through changes and enhancements to its language.

In This Section

  • Getting Started with Visual FoxPro
    Visual FoxPro is the object-oriented database management system that makes it possible for you to create state-of-the-art enterprise database solutions.
  • Using Visual FoxPro
    Visual FoxPro programming features are designed to improve developer productivity, including Access and Assign methods, support for more graphic file formats, and language to simplify programming tasks.
  • Visual FoxPro Interactive Development Environment
    To provide an editing environment that supports the kind of projects you must develop, Visual FoxPro Editor incorporates IntelliSense technologies and enhanced Interactive Development Environment (IDE) functionality.
  • Database Container Events
    Database container (DBC) events are actions recognized by the various objects for which you can write code as methods, functions, or procedures in response.
  • Server Enhancements
    Visual FoxPro provides new server capabilities through the IMPLEMENTS clause of the DEFINE CLASS command and Web services through XML commands and structures.
  • Visual FoxPro and XML
    Extensible Markup Language (XML) is the standard language for describing and delivering data on the Web, just as Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) is the standard language for creating and displaying Web pages. To make it possible for you to implement data exchange through XML formatting more easily, Visual FoxPro provides new functions and functionality.