Category Archives: Foxpro

Adding custom data to QuickBooks invoices from FoxPro

Posted on February 23, 2011 by admin

I finally figured out a bug in my VFP code that we use to add data to custom fields in QuickBooks invoices!!!! Well, actually, it turns out that there was no a bug in *my* code at all… The bug … Continue reading →

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Object Inspectors and Explorers for FoxPro

Posted on December 20, 2010 by admin

An “object explorer” or ”object inspector” is a visual tool that provides a GUI mechanism to explore and navigate the hierarchy of a saturated FoxPro object. This allows you to see all the property names and values that live on an object, and … Continue reading →

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wwBusinessPro – Article 2: Configuring Child classes (wwBusProItemList)

Posted on February 1, 2010 by admin

Note: This post if part of a complete series on the West Wind wwBusiness library.Click here to see the full index Another enhancement I added to wwBusinessPro was to allow for Child record collections to be easily used with a … Continue reading →

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wwBusinessPro Setup Instructions

Posted on January 22, 2010 by admin

Note: This post if part of a complete series on the West Wind wwBusiness library.Click here to see the full index Added 02/02/2010 12:41 am

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wwBusinessPro – Article 1: String Lookups

Posted on January 21, 2010 by admin

Note: This post if part of a complete series on the West Wind wwBusiness library. Click here to see the full index   I’ve written an extension library on top of the West Wind wwBusiness classes. You can read the … Continue reading →

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Exploring my wwBusiness extension library

Posted on January 21, 2010 by admin

Updated 02/01/2010 1:26 pm I’ve written an extension library on top of the West Wind wwBusiness classes for object oriented data access in Visual FoxPro, which I’ve named wwBusinessPro. In this blog series I will explain some of the basics … Continue reading →

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Grid Column DataBinding feature for VFP Grids

Posted on December 11, 2009 by admin

I want to share some code from my custom grid class that creates an easy way to programmatically bind columns in a grid to a cursor that is opened in the workspace. Basically, this method binds each column’s ControlSource property … Continue reading →

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To Blog or to Forum Post, that’s the question…

Posted on September 14, 2009 by admin

I’m not really sure why I’m so driven to do this, but I’ve always been a spread-the-news kind of guy for the VFP community. Any time I see something cool, or that I think others may be interest in, I … Continue reading →

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Crash Course to Web Development for FoxPro and Web Connection Developers

Posted on September 14, 2009 by admin

I just received an e-mail announcement for what looks like an awesome jump start class for Visual FoxPro developers to get their feet wet in the .Net Web development arena. Super-smart web maven Rick Strahl plans to give you 3 … Continue reading →

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West Wind Client Tools for VFP

Posted on August 12, 2009 by admin

  Note: This post if part of a complete series on the West Wind wwBusiness library. Click here to see the full index Introducing wwBusiness An object oriented data access library for Visual FoxPro I recently got interested in converting … Continue reading →

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