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Visual FoxPro CD-ROM Training

Your Visual FoxPro Instructor

Jim Booth is your instructor for Microsoft Visual FoxPro 6.0 Professional Training via CD-ROM. Jim is a FoxPro developer with over 19 years of application analysis and design experience. He has spoken at industry conferences worldwide. Jim has written articles for FoxTalk and FoxPro Advisor, and is the co-author of Visual FoxPro 3.0 Unleashed (Sams Publishing), Using Visual FoxPro 6.0 (Que), and Effective Techniques for Application Development with Visual FoxPro 6.0 (Hentzenwerke). Jim is a technical editor for Using Visual FoxPro 3.0 (Que) and Database Design for Mere Mortals (Addison Wesley).

Visual FoxPro CD-ROM 1

Navigating Visual FoxPros Interface
1.1 Interface Overview
1.2 Using Visual FoxPros Menu System
1.3 Using Toolbars
1.4 Using the Command Window
1.5 Using Shortcut Menus
1.6 Using Properties Windows
1.7 Using Help

Configuring Visual FoxPro
2.1 The Options Dialog Box
2.2 Review of Tabs

Visual FoxPro Databases
3.1 Understanding Database Terminology
3.2 Steps to Database Design
3.3 The Database Wizard
3.4 The Visual FoxPro Database Designer

Visual FoxPro CD-ROM 2

Creating Visual FoxProTables
4.1 Working with Tables
4.2 Modifying Table Structures with the Table Designer
4.3 Creating Persistent Relationships

Creating Views in the Database
5.1 What Is a View?
5.2 The View Designer
5.3 Viewing SQL Code
5.4 Creating Parameterized Views
5.5 Queries vs. Views in Visual FoxPro

Visual FoxPro CD-ROM 3

The Visual FoxPro Project Manager
6.1 The Project Manager

Working with Visual FoxPro Forms
7.1 Designing Forms with the Form Designer
7.2 Adding Controls to Your Forms
7.3 Specifying the Data Environment
7.4 DataSessions
7.5 Understanding PEM programming
7.6 Building an Actual Form

Creating Reports in Visual FoxPro
8.1 Creating Reports with the Report Designer
Appendix: Using the One-to-Many Report Wizard
Appendix: Modifying Reports with the Report Designer

Visual FoxPro CD-ROM 4

The Visual FoxPro Language v 9.1 Understanding Programming Terminology
9.2 Operators
9.3 Program Flow Constructs
9.4 Dealing with the Year 2000 Problem
Appendix: Table/Data Oriented Commands and Function

Visual FoxPro CD-ROM 5

The Visual FoxPro Database Container
10.1 What Is a Data Dictionary?
10.2 Referential Integrity
10.3 DbGetProp() and DbSetProp()
10.4 The GENDBC Program
10.5 Updateable Views
10.6 Top N views
10.7 Outer Joins

Using SQL in Visual FoxPro
11.1 Why Use SQL?
11.2 SQL SELECT
11.3 SQL UPDATE
11.4 SQL DELETE
11.5 SQL CREATE
11.6 SQL INSERT

Testing and Debugging Visual FoxPro Applications
16.1 The Debugger as a Developers Tool
16.2 Testing Scenarios
16.3 Coverage and Profiling Analysis

Visual FoxPro CD-ROM 10

Programming Standards and Conventions
17.1 Understanding the Costs of Development
17.2 The Value of Conventions

Understanding the Value of Good Database Design
18.1 Characteristics of a True Relational Database
18.2 Data Normalization

Designing User Interfaces
19.1 Interface Design Principles
19.2 User Hostile Interface Design

Visual FoxPro CD-ROM 11

Accessing Remote Data
20.1 What Is Client/Server Development?
20.2 Configuring ODBC Drivers
20.3 Accessing Remote Data
20.4 Designing Visual FoxPro Client/Server Applications

OLE Drag-and-Drop
21.1 What Is OLE Drag and Drop?
21.2 The Objects Involved
21.3 Examples

Visual FoxPro and the Internet
22.1 Internet Terminology
22.2 What Is HTML?
22.3 Publishing Visual FoxPro Data on the Internet
Appendix: Saving As HTML

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