>I would appreciate some recommendations for tutorial books on VFP6. There don't seem to be very many titles out there.
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>The ones I've seen seem to cover only the obvious, or else get into advanced philosophy. There seems to be no middle ground covering the methods of programming, particularly the visual (object oriented) parts of an application.
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>Any suggestions?
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>(I would appreciate an email copy of your reply.)
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>Neil Peston

Neil,

Know where you're coming from. <g>

When I first opened TassTraders I was just blow away -- it didn't seem to begin *anywhere*. A good first book, because he builds up an application and a veryu simple framework from scratch is "Programming Visual FoxPro 3.0" by Whil Hentzen ISBN 1-56276-325-3. Granted it's for 3.0, and if you can find it remindered so mutch the better.

Pinnacle Publishing also had an excellent series called "The Pros Talk FoxPro 3" in a series of 4 books, edited by Whil Hentzen. These have been consolidated in a book of the same name from Microsoft Press, ISBN 1-57231-233-5. Again, a 3.0 orientation, but excellent foundation material, good exercises and sample programs.

Finally, if you can find it, "FoxPro 2: A Developers Guide" from M&T Book, ISBN 1-55851-084-2, with the subtitle 'Expert Guidance for Industrial Strength Programming' fulfills its promise. Chapter 3, Models of Maintainability by Alan Schwartz should be read by everybody and its precepts burned into their brains. IT's worth the price alone, Part IV: Database Design is frosting on the cake.

Other books have come and gone from the "ready-use" shelf, these three remain.

Hope this helps - Miles