>I am attempting to control VFP 6.0 via Automation (I'm doing this from within a VFP 6.0 application which seems to work well enough), but I'm having a very difficult time determining how to automate many events in VFP. The documentation provided for the VFP Application Object Model seems pretty superficial and there aren't many examples.
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VFP does not have a scripting language like Office products have (VBA). You are limited mainliy to doing stuff you would normally do in the command window. Just use the DoCmd method to execute these commands.