>>>I'd even suspect that you could scrape up the money for a copy of "The Fundamentals"
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>First on my list as a good refresher having last done serious work in 2.6 some 7 years ago I figure this (like chicken soup when you are sick) could not hurt. Followed by 5 other books from Hentzenwerke. Probabaly Advanced Oop next.
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>>>or KiloFox if you found that some solid documentation would reduce your workload by weeks...
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>I've not yet heard of Kilofox....?

1001 Things You Wanted to Know About Visual FoxPro, another Hentzenwerke title; it's a very practical, "how to" oriented book.

I still think that people ought to at least take advantage of the references that come with VFP; there are an awful lot of threads where simply looking at the examples in the Programmer's Guide and User's Guide sections of the on-line docs would answer the question precisely and rather instantaneously Things like how to add a control to a column, or what's the difference between a cursor created by CREATE CURSOR, one created via SQL Select, or a view, are actually explained pretty well, and to me it's very frustrating to see somone drag out a long, repetitive thread, where the same topic was covered two days ago, and the answer is just sitting there in the docs if the person would just sit down and read it. RTFM is generally good advise - but I guess that I'm just naive in assuming that other people have to read the docs, too, for me at least, the knowledge doesn't creep in through the keyboard by osmosis...

I guess I'm just brain-damaged; I rarely manage to figure something out without reading the docs on it and trying it a few times.