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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. Get Visual FoxPro 9.0 through MSDN Subscriptions, or as a stand-alone full product or upgrade.


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News updates from the Visual FoxPro Team

Get the latest information about Visual FoxPro 9.0, Sedna, and community news. (April 7, 2009)

Sample: Visual FoxPro DDEX Provider for Visual Studio 2005

Download the Visual Basic sample code for a Visual Studio 2005 DDEX Provider for Visual FoxPro. (March 04, 2009, Download)

Help download for Visual FoxPro 9.0 SP2

Download product documentation for Visual FoxPro 9.0 SP2. (April 2008, Download)

Visual FoxPro 9.0 "Sedna" AddOns

Download the Sedna AddOns for Microsoft Visual FoxPro 9.0 SP2. (January 25, 2008, Download)

Visual FoxPro 9.0 Service Pack 2 (SP2)

Download Service Pack 2 for Microsoft Visual FoxPro 9.0. (October 11, 2007, Download)

Microsoft OLE DB Provider for Visual FoxPro 9.0 (SP2 update)

The Visual FoxPro OLE DB Provider (VfpOleDB.dll) exposes OLE DB interfaces that you can use to access Visual FoxPro databases and tables from other programming languages and applications. Note: This version of the VFP OLE DB provider is the same as the one included with Visual FoxPro 9.0 SP2. (February 14, 2008, Download)

XSource for Visual FoxPro 9.0 SP2

Download XSource for Visual FoxPro 9.0 SP2. XSource.zip has its own license agreement for usage, modification and distribution of the XBase files. (November 14, 2007, Download)

Online documentation for Visual FoxPro 9.0 SP2

Access product documentation for Visual FoxPro 9.0 SP2 online. (July 2007, Documentation)

A message to the community from the VFP team

A special message to the Visual FoxPro community from the team. (March 13, 2007, Article)

.NET for Visual FoxPro Developers
The complete 500 page .NET for Visual FoxPro Developers book written by Kevin McNeish is now online.
New Section for .NET on Visual FoxPro Developer Center
Find technical information with a Visual FoxPro perspective for learning and using .NET.
Visual FoxPro 9.0 Resources

List of third-party resources related to Visual FoxPro 9.0 add-on products, tools, utilities, training, and more.


Visual FoxPro Development

CoDe Magazine Focus: Visual FoxPro
CoDe Focus issues online contain in-depth technical articles.
Windows Event Binding Made Easy
FoxTalk 2.0 article on capturing Windows events in Visual FoxPro 9.0.
Hyperlink Your Reports
FoxTalk 2.0 article on how to add live hyperlinks to output generated from reports, allowing some action to be performed when they're clicked.
What's New in the Visual FoxPro 9.0 Report Writer
MSDN article on what's new in the enhanced Visual FoxPro 9.0 report design and runtime system.
Visual FoxPro 9.0 Report Writer In Action

MSDN article explaining several examples of using Visual FoxPro 9.0 reports in action.

Ultimate Power & Speed of VFP
FoxPro Advisor article on handling extremely large data sets.
Creating Tablet PC Applications with Microsoft Visual FoxPro
Learn how to use the Microsoft Tablet PC Platform SDK to capture digital ink, recognize handwriting, handle events raised by Tablet PC controls, and persist ink to files in Microsoft Visual FoxPro applications.

Extending and Customizing Visual FoxPro

Mining for Gold in XSource

FoxTalk 2.0 article. This article looks at various files in XSource to show you cool ideas and code you can use in your applications.

Inside the Visual FoxPro Toolbox
Learn how the Visual FoxPro Toolbox works, how to customize it, and how to distribute tool sets.
IntelliSense in Visual FoxPro
Learn how IntelliSense is implemented in Visual FoxPro and how to take advantage of its potential.

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