What's New in Visual FoxPro 7.0

 

The best just keeps getting better! Visual FoxPro 7.0 provides even faster and more powerful features for building great database applications. With Visual FoxPro 7.0 you can more rapidly design and create great applications whether they are desktop, client/server, nTier, or web. Here are some of the many great new features:

 

Development Environment

Ø        IntelliSense – powerful, extensible language assistance as you type

Ø        Document View – view and quickly navigate to procedures, functions and methods in your source

Ø        Dockable IDE Windows – dock common tools such as Command Window, Data Session, and Debug windows

Ø        Editor – new bookmarks and shortcuts support, Find capabilities, case conversion, and document navigation

 

Data Enhancements

Ø        Database Events – add event code to common database operations such as opening a table or modifying a view

Ø        OLE DB Provider – gives external clients access to your Visual FoxPro data

                                                                     

Server Improvements

Ø        COM+ Services – new support for creating Visual FoxPro COM components that function with many popular COM+ Services

Ø        Implement Interfaces – inherit interfaces from other COM components

Ø        Event Handling – ability to bind Visual FoxPro code to external client events such as those with an ADO Recordset

 

Language Enhancements

Ø        XML  – extensive support for converting between cursors and XML

Ø        Text Merge – improved functionality for working with various types of text in your source

Ø        Array – improved handling of arrays

Ø        Data – lots of great improvements for working with data

 

Other New Features

Ø        Web Services – publish and subscribe to web services anywhere on the Internet

Ø        Object Browser – view and simplify working with COM object libraries

Ø        Task List Manager – manages shortcuts to locations in code as well as ToDo tasks

Ø        IntelliSense Manager – provides ability to customize Visual FoxPro’s powerful IntelliSense support

Ø        Active Accessibility – make your applications accessible to 3rd party tools such as screen readers, voice recognition devices and automated test harnesses