Visual FoxPro Interactive Development Environment

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To provide an editing environment that supports the kind of projects you must develop, Visual FoxPro Editor incorporates IntelliSense technologies and enhanced Interactive Development Environment (IDE) functionality, such as dockable windows.

In This Section

  • Visual FoxPro IDE Enhancements
    This version of Visual FoxPro includes many enhancements to the Interactive Development Environment (IDE), including changes to the Tools menu Options dialog box, system menus, and window behavior.
  • Visual FoxPro Editor Enhancements
    The Visual FoxPro Editor includes many enhancements to make it easier to edit and examine code including additional functionality and redistribution of settings and controls.
  • IntelliSense in Visual FoxPro
    IntelliSense in Visual FoxPro displays popup windows and drop-down lists that assist you with statement and function completion syntax, and displays the available variables, objects, properties, methods, and events of objects.
  • Task List Manager
    Use the Task List Manager to a list of to do items that can include shortcuts to locations in your code.
  • Object Browser
    This tool makes it easy to see the language elements of COM objects.
  • Visual FoxPro Active Accessibility
    Visual FoxPro contains tools that help test for accessibility.
  • Menu Additions and Enhancements
    This version of Visual FoxPro updates the standard toolbar, shortcut menus, and many system Edit, View, Tools, Format, and Window menus.
  • New Keyboard Access and Control Shortcuts
    See a list of new keyboard shortcuts.
  • Getting Started with Visual FoxPro
    Visual FoxPro is the object-oriented database management system that makes it possible for you to create state-of-the-art enterprise database solutions.
  • Developing Visual FoxPro Applications
    This section includes conceptual information about how to develop Visual FoxPro applications, instructions for creating databases and the user interface, and other tasks needed to create Visual FoxPro applications.
  • Visual FoxPro Language Enhancements
    Visual FoxPro provides new functionality through changes and enhancements to enhancements to its language.
  • Database Container Events
    Database container (DBC) events are actions recognized by the various objects for which you can write code as methods, functions, or procedures in response.
  • Server Enhancements
    This version of Visual FoxPro provides new server capabilities through the IMPLEMENTS clause of the DEFINE CLASS command, and Web services through XML commands and structures.
  • Visual FoxPro and XML
    Extensible Markup Language (XML) is the standard language for describing and delivering data on the Web, just as Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) is the standard language for creating and displaying Web pages. To make it possible for you to implement data exchange through XML formatting more easily, Visual FoxPro provides new functions and functionality.