Microsoft Visual FoxPro 9.0

Visual FoxPro 9.0 provides the tools you need to create and manage high-performance, 32-bit database applications and components. Its robust tools and data-centric, object-oriented language make it ideal for building modern, scalable, multitier applications that integrate client/server computing and the Internet.

Features of 9.0 include:

Flexibility to Build All Types of Database Solutions

• Create .NET compatible solutions with hierarchical XML and XML Web services.

• Exchange data with SQL Server through enhanced SQL language capabilities and newly supported data types.

• Enhance your user interfaces with dockable user forms, auto-anchoring of controls, and improved image support.

• Personalize the Properties Window with your favorite properties, custom editors, fonts, and color settings.

• Build and deploy stand-alone and remote applications for Windows based Tablet PCs.

• Create and access COM components and XML Web Services compatible with Microsoft .NET technology.

• Allows you to build end-to-end solutions, from data entry forms to complex report outputs.

Reporting System Features

• Extensible new output architecture provides precision control of report data output and formatting.

• Multiple detail band support for data with multiple one-to-many relationships.

• Output reports supported include in XML, HTML, image formats, and customizable multi-page print preview window.

• Customizable print preview window with improved display quality and multiple page support.

• New ReportListener class provides access to report generation and rendering events at runtime.

• Flexible report chaining allows for more complex print jobs.

• Powerful design-time hooks with customizable builders.

• Backward compatible with existing Visual FoxPro reports.

Data-Handling and Interoperability

• New Data Types - Varchar, Varbinary, and Blob types allow for improved interoperability with SQL Server.

• Extended SQL Enhancements – more capabilities with SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE and DELETE statements.

• CAST() – new function allows you to convert between different data types.

• New Binary Index – support for new index type to improve performance using Deleted tag.

• XMLAdapter – improved nested hierarchical XML and XSD schema support.

*Smart Client User Interface Features**

• Dockable Forms – allow for professional functioning Windows applications.

• Anchoring – lets you control movement of controls on a form as the form is resized.

• Buttons – improved control over position of image on a button with text alignment.

• Checkboxes – new wordwrap support for checkbox captions.

• Labels – support for rotating text for label captions.

• Shapes and Lines – ability to create polygons and Bezier curves.

• Lists and Combos – use collections as databinding row source.

• Images – bind to non file-based pictures.