What s Not Included

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What's Not Included

A number of topics are not included in this book. I was unable to include a detailed treatment of thin client development and the construction of installers , due to page count limitations. I excluded the treatment of the Visual FoxPro Toolkit for .NET written by Kamal Patel (www.KamalPatel.net) for the same reason that I excluded the VisualBasic Namespace; because, the whole point of using .NET is to discover its capabilities and use them, rather than depending on legacy features. I've left out remoting and reflection because they are advanced topics that are not required to build many basic database applications.

I didn't talk about third-party products such as RapTier and Visible Developer, both of which will save countless hours, because they build middle- tier code that you will and should know how to write yourself. You can always go out and buy this kind of tool once you understand what they do for you. Finally, I didn't mention Visual CE, a great tool for building Pocket PC applications, because FoxPro doesn't provide a mechanism for programming Windows CE.

With Visual Basic .NET, you can do things that you can't do with FoxPro. However, if you start at the beginning and work through the chapters, writing and testing the code as you go, by the time you finish the book you'll be able to build the same kind of database applications in Visual Basic that you've built in FoxPro. This should get you started on the rest of your career.

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Visual Fox Pro to Visual Basic.NET
Visual FoxPro to Visual Basic .NET
ISBN: 0672326493
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2004
Pages: 130
Authors: Les Pinter

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