>>Definately 1001 Things and Effeective Techniques. You'll also want to get Advanced OOP. My guess is that if you're using FoxExpress that you'll want that book too. I haven't seen the Frameworks book yet.
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>Count me in for the same. Read effective Techniques last year, awesome. 1001 things is fantastic (all the PITA code snippets you've never gotten around to writing is in there), I'm going through the OOP book now and it is great so far.
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>< Roi channeling through Craig >


Thanks to all that replied. It looks like the weight of opinion is to buy these three books first:

Microsoft Office Automation with VFP (Granor/Martin)
1001 Things You Wanted to Know about Visual FoxPro (Akins et al)
Effective Techniques for Application Development (Booth/Sawyer)

I specified that I had already decided to buy the Automation book. The Hentzenwerke blurb says that "1001" makes a great stepping stone between "Hacker's Guide" (which I have) to "Effective Techniques". Sounds like a winner to me.

That would leave these three books for later:

Advanced Object Oriented Programming (Egger)
Creating VFP Applications with Visual FoxExpress (Archer/Jorden) (available soon)
Building Visual FoxPro Frameworks (McDaniel) (available ?)


Thanks again. I'll fax my order in tomorrow.

Peter