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What's New in Visual FoxPro 8.0

Welcome to Microsoft Visual FoxPro. Visual FoxPro is the object-oriented relational database management system that you can use to create database solutions for the desktop to the Web. Visual FoxPro provides powerful data handling capabilities, rapid application development tools for maximum productivity, and the flexibility needed to build all types of database solutions.

In This Section

  • Getting Started with Visual FoxPro
    Provides information about where to find the ReadMe file, how to install and upgrade from previous versions, configure Visual FoxPro, and customize the development environment.
  • Using Visual FoxPro
    Provides an overview of Visual FoxPro features, describes concepts and productivity tools for developing, programming, and managing high-performance database applications and components, and provides walkthroughs that help get you started. With the robust tools and data-centric object-oriented language that Visual FoxPro offers, you can build modern, scalable, multi-tier applications that integrate client/server computing and the Internet.
  • Samples and Walkthroughs
    Contains Visual FoxPro code samples and step-by-step walkthroughs that you can use for experimenting with and learning Visual FoxPro features.
  • Reference
    Describes Visual FoxPro general, programming language, user interface, and error message reference topics.
  • Product Support
    Provides information about Microsoft technical support for Visual FoxPro.