Interoperability and the Internet

Visual FoxPro supports OLE drag-and-drop, which makes it possible for you to move data between Visual FoxPro and other applications, as well as within Visual FoxPro applications.

Visual FoxPro also makes it easy to create applications for use with the Internet and other Microsoft Windows-based applications, such as Excel and Visual Basic.

Visual FoxPro makes it easy to create Automation servers that work better with the Internet, Microsoft Transaction Server, and the Active Desktop.

In This Section

  • OLE Drag-and-Drop
    Visual FoxPro supports OLE drag-and-drop, a powerful and useful tool, which makes it possible for you to move data between other applications that support OLE drag-and-drop (such as Visual FoxPro, Visual Basic, the Microsoft Windows Explorer, Word and Excel, and so on).
  • Active Documents
    You can create Active Documents, which make it possible for you to view non-HTML documents in a Web browser host, such as Microsoft Internet Explorer.
  • Application Development and Developer Productivity
    Visual FoxPro continues to provide developer tools for application development within the FoxPro application and the XBase language. Visual FoxPro has added and enhanced object-oriented language and behaviors.