Developing Visual FoxPro Applications

Visual FoxPro provides an extensive set of tools and technologies so you can rapidly build flexible solutions with powerful data handling capabilities. The Visual FoxPro application development environment helps you with all aspects of application development.

In This Section

• Application Planning
  Provides information and considerations, such as topics about design, architecture, and security, to help you plan your applications carefully.

• Creating Applications
  Provides an overview and phases involved with creating an application.

• Working with Data
  Provides an overview and information about using data in your applications, for example, analyzing data requirements and designing your application components to meet those requirements.

• Enhancing Applications Using SQL Pass-Through Technology
  Describes techniques for implementing client/server technology in a working application that uses remote views.

• Web Services and Components
  Describes ways to extend applications to make them work for multiple users.

• Optimizing Applications
  Describes ways to optimize performance by making your application.

• Testing and Debugging Applications
  Discusses testing and debugging as necessary stages in the development cycle. The best results come from writing understandable and maintainable code and using the available debugging tools.

• Compiling an Application
  Describes building your application by compiling code and provides information about referencing modifiable files and building an application file from your project.

• Configuring Help Files for Applications
  Describes how to configure access to Help files that you create for your application.

• Distributing Applications
  Provides information about preparing your application for distribution.

Related Sections

• Using Visual FoxPro
  Discusses the Visual FoxPro programming environment and tools that help you create and manage high-performance database applications and components.

• Programming in Visual FoxPro
  Describes how understanding object-oriented programming and the event-driven model can maximize your productivity and enable you to access the full power of Visual FoxPro.

• Optimizing Applications
  Provides information on how to get the best performance from your operating system, Visual FoxPro, and your application.