Visual FoxPro Practical Tutorial

Author: Li Ping
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Publish Date: 2003-11-01
Features: Visual FoxPro 6.0 is a new visual relational database management system development platform launched by Microsoft. It offers powerful performance, comprehensive tools, an extremely user-friendly interface, simple data access methods, good compatibility, true compilability, unique cross-platform technology, and strong security. It is one of the fastest and most practical microcomputer database management system software available today. The book is comprehensive in content, clear in structure, easy to understand, meticulously edited and explained, and richly illustrated. It is suitable for classroom teaching by instructors and self-study by students. The book can be used as a textbook for vocational colleges, higher vocational colleges, and various higher education institutions, or as a training manual for computer training courses. It can also serve as a reference book for professional or non-professional developers who use Visual FoxPro 6.0 for programming. The book introduces the visual programming methods and database operations of Visual FoxPro 6.0, covering main topics such as the basic knowledge of Visual FoxPro, the visual programming tools and steps of Visual FoxPro, sequential, selection, and loop structure programming, procedures and procedure calls, the creation, modification, and validity checking of databases and tables, the creation of views and data queries, and the data definition, modification, and query functions of the relational database standard language SQL. The use of project managers, designers, and wizards is also covered.