Programming in Visual FoxPro

You can create applications and programs by learning about and using Visual FoxPro's programming language and capabilities.

In This Section

• Basic Programming Concepts
  Provides an overview of programming fundamentals necessary to work in Visual FoxPro, including data storage, data types, containers, operators, commands, and controlling program flow.

• Working with Programs
  Introduces how to create and work with Visual FoxPro programs, which are text files containing instructions using the Visual FoxPro language.

• Working with Procedures and Functions
  Introduces how to call native functions as well as user-defined functions and procedures, provides an overview and aspects of user-defined functions and procedures, and how to create functions and procedures.

• Passing Data to Parameters
  Discusses ways and how to pass data to parameters.

• Object-Oriented Programming
  Discusses how you can create self-contained application components that respond to user actions and to the system and which can be easily maintained and reused.

• Accessing APIs
  Discusses how you can extend an application by taking advantage of external libraries such as Microsoft ActiveX controls or dynamic-link libraries (DLLs).

• How to: Create Quit Routines
  Describes how to create customized quit routines when users quit your application, Visual FoxPro, or Microsoft Windows.

Related Sections

• 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.

• Developing Visual FoxPro Applications
  Explains concepts about how to develop Visual FoxPro applications, instructions for creating databases and the user interface, and other tasks needed to create Visual FoxPro applications.

• Development Productivity Tools
  Discusses the developer tools for application development within the Visual FoxPro application and the Visual FoxPro language.

• Walkthroughs
  Provides common scenarios and step-by-step guides on how to create different types of applications and components.