Visual FoxPro 9: Made Simple (English Edition)

It is very hard to find any book about Visual FoxPro.I am glad that I found this one.It helped me to understand some code that I had inherited.

"Visual FoxPro Made Simple" is such an excellent book that covers many facets of Visual FoxPro. This book was very well written. It is great for beginners and Advanced Developers.

Very Useful. Explains key concepts very clearly.

Good book.

This book is cheaply produced (very cheap paper, printing and cover) and can't have been sub-edited - it is full of errors of English: some sentences have 2 errors. It is not just the English the FoxPro is ambiguously described at a number of points.The book claims that it covers versions 6 to 9 of FoxPro. However, I could find little in the book covering versions 7 to 9. The book is a basic coverage of FoxPro aimed at the beginner or intermediate user. In terms of working with web pages - there is nothing. There is a chapter on working with other software packages. There is an explanation of importing and exporting data. 2 sections follow on working with Word Mail merge and Excel. Most of the section on Excel focuses on using FoxPro to store data in an Excel spreadsheet that has been created / opened via the FoxPro code. There is a short discussion of using CursorAdapter class to access data. This is fairly basic and ends with: "A detailed discussion of the CursorAdapter class is beyond the scope of this book. Refer to the Visual FoxPro documentation for additional information." So there we have it.I am passionate about FoxPro and sorry that there aren't good books / manuals to show people how to use what (it has to be said) is a complex but highly flexible product. There is a huge amount on the web but most of it in specific articles with their own style. I fear that FoxPro is heading to the museum of programming languages because new generations of programmers find it so hard to access. A well written manual would change that.

After reading half way through the pages were mixed up that much I put this book down

Sebbene sia datato è scritto bene. Ho solo avuto problemi con la creazione dei menù ( che ho risolto con i pulsanti). È stato utilissimo per recuperare vecchio codice scritto in Clipper negli anni novanta. IL MIO CONSIGLIO È IL SEGUENTE: anche un vecchio linguaggio se è efficiente e stabile e risolve i problemi NON VA GETTATO. ( in una giornata sono riuscito a fare una applicazione completa e ad essere pagato!). Invece molto spesso per capricci di mercato si assiste a dismissione di ambienti di sviluppo per proporre altri più corposi che richiedono mesi prima di essere efficienti e produttivi. Ad esempio ho visual studio 2010 e 2012 e diverse volte mi sono sciroppato manuali di migliaia di pagine con un ritorno economico decisamente magro.

Excellent book for beginners . Gives ample exposure to OOP

Not bad