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Moving from Fox for DOS to Visual FoxPro

Question: I would like some Visual FoxPro application as a starting guide in VFP 6. I’m finding it hard to add commands using a form. For example, I want to

Porting from Oracle to Informix

Question: We have an existing application, which has been developed using ASP. The database being used is Oracle 8. Now, for a different customer, we want to port this application

Building Crosstabs

Question: How do I build crosstabs in Visual FoxPro? Answer: Visual FoxPro has a wizard that helps you create a Crosstab query. From the Wizards submenu on the Tools menu,

Patch for Divide-By-Zero Error

Question: We are getting a divide-by-zero error running FoxPro for Windows 2.5 on a Novell server on the network on an NT workstation. Can I use the patch in version

Creating Public Folders

Question: The department I am in would like to have a kind of “posting” center for questions or a kind of “discussion thread” area only accessible to our department. We