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The Visual FoxPro team at Microsoft is enthused to announce Visual FoxPro 9.0. Find out what their goals were and how they achieved them.

In this article, you'll learn about Visual FoxPro 9's report listener concept, how it receives events as a report runs, and how you can create your own listeners to provide different types of output in addition to print and preview.

Whether you use a COM component from .NET or a .NET component from a COM-enabled environment (such as VFP), COM Interop is the mechanism that allows for such interoperability.

Dive right in to Visual FoxPro 9.0's new properties, events, and methods; new or improved commands; and FoxPro Foundation Classes (FFCs).

Even though FoxPro has long been overshadowed by more glamorous products, it's still one of the best tools on the market for getting things done. With new enhancements coming in version 9.0, it's not likely to go the way of the dodo anytime soon.

Visual FoxPro 9 has a number of IDE changes that continue Visual FoxPro's trend of making developers more productive.

Microsoft has significantly improved the Report Writer in Visual FoxPro 9, while maintaining compatibility with previous versions of Visual FoxPro Reports, making the new Report Writer a great blend of the old and the new.

The Microsoft Visual FoxPro team has a great reputation for responding to community requests and version 9 reflects many such changes, most notably changes to the data engine that enhance data access and database application development.

Visual FoxPro 8.0 introduces a whole new way to work with eXtensible Markup Language (XML). The XMLAdapter class works with hierarchical XML, provides an object-oriented approach to working with XML data, and leverages your familiarity with tables and fields in the way it exposes the XML contents.

With the introduction of Visual FoxPro 3.0, error handling in VFP changed substantially. Rather than using "on error" statements, "state of the art" error events became available. Now, seven years later, more sophisticated error handling mechanisms take center stage as Visual FoxPro 8.0 introduces structured error handling.

Visual FoxPro 8 offers many new features and opportunities to make life easier.

The new VFP 8 feature often referred to as "Member Classes" is a set of new properties and new ways to define classes that can bring much more flexibility when working with certain controls.

There are so many new features in VFP 8 that we can't cover them all. Claudio does his best to hit the high points in this round-up of several exciting new capabilities that VFP 8 brings to the table.

For most applications, events are what drive the development effort, but event handling doesn't offer developers much flexibility. But in VFP 8, event handling is changing for the better.

One of the most exciting new features of Visual FoxPro 8 is the CursorAdapter class, which provides a common interface for working with data from many different sources. Chuck takes you with him on an adventure in exploring how to use CursorAdapter to change the way you relate to data in VFP 8, whether native tables, ODBC, OLE DB, or XML.

Visual FoxPro 8.0 includes a new Collection base class. In this article, Doug describes some uses for collections and why they are superior to arrays.

The Visual FoxPro Team at Microsoft is very excited to announce that Visual FoxPro 8.0 was completed and released to manufacturing (RTM) on January 31st, 2003. We were hoping to release Visual FoxPro 8.0 in early January, but needed the extra time to ensure we released the most stable and feature rich release of Visual FoxPro possible. Here are some details about Visual FoxPro 8.0, related announcements, and upcoming activities around the release.

Automating the Office servers seems straightforward at first. But there are subtle (and not-so-subtle) differences in how they work that can trap unsuspecting developers.

This 10-Minute Solution describes the concept of default behaviors, followed by the description of the DODEFAULT and NODEFAULT commands, and presents tips for their use and some traps to avoid.