Microsoft Visual FoxPro 9.0 - The right tool for all types of database solutions

FoxPro software is the right tool for all types of database solutions. FoxPro's data-centric, object-oriented language gives you a robust set of tools for building database applications for desktop computers, client-servers, or Web services.

Data-handling and interoperability: Create .NET-compatible solutions with hierarchical XML and XML Web services. Exchange Foxpro academic software data with SQL Server through enhanced SQL language capabilities and newly supported data types.

Extensible developer productivity tools of Visual Foxpro: 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 all types of database solutions with Microsoft Visial FoxPro: Build and deploy stand-alone and remote applications for Windows-based Tablet PCs with Microsoft Visual FoxPro academic software. Create and access COM components and XML Web Services that are compatible with Microsoft .NET technology.

Reporting system features: Extensible new output architecture provides precision control of report data output and formatting. Design with multiple detail banding, text rotation, and report chaining. Output reports supported include XML, HTML, image formats, and customizable multi-page print preview window. Backward compatible with existing Visual FoxPro reports.

New features in Visual FoxPro 9.0:

Flexibility to Build All Types of Database Solutions

• Create .NET compatible solutions with hierarchical XML and XML Web services.
• Exchange FoxPro data with SQL Server through enhanced SQL language capabilities and newly supported data types.
• FoxPro helps you 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 FoxPro applications for Windows based Tablet PCs.
• Create and access COM components and XML Web Services compatible with Microsoft .NET technology.
• Visual FoxPro 9.0 allows you to build end-to-end solutions, from data entry forms to complex report outputs.

Microsoft Visual FoxPro 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.
• FoxPro academic software has a 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.

FoxPro's 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 of Viusal FoxPro

• Dockable Forms – allow for professional functioning Windows applications.
• Anchoring  – FoxPro 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 word wrap support for checkbox captions.
• Labels – support for rotating text in FoxPro 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.

Extensible Developer Productivity of Visual FoxPro

• Property Sheet – support for new font and color display options, extended characters and long     expressions.
• Member Data Extensibility – ability to specify custom property editors and favorites.
• Background Compile in FoxPro– see valid and invalid syntax as you type command lines.
• Task Pane – new and improved task panes such as the Data Explorer pane.
• Extended System Capabilities – no limits for arrays, procedure size, and nesting levels.
• String Functions of Visual FoxPro – powerful new enhancements for working with strings.
• ICASE() – new inline function similar to DO CASE statement.
• International – greater support for use of FontCharSets in applications.