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>>>Good Thing or Bad Thing...
>>>Consider this. Good Thing - The fewer people that know how to do VFP, the more work for those of us that do. Bad thing - Trying to convince people that VFP is the solution.
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>>>Recently I had a VB person looking at an app I developed in two days. He commented... "I didn't know VFP could do that!" I think that is the general perspective of those in the IT industry. Most don't know VFP can do that.
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>>>About books, Just order from Hentzenwerk Publishing. All you really need to know really fast and good value.
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>Another point, not always made when saying that there are tons of books for VB/C++/etc. but only 2 or none for VFP, is the quality of those books. If you see 30 books on VB (not an unreasonable number in a big tech bookstore), odds are that most of them are copycats, overlap each other and their quality is suspect. Many have been rushed to market, to make a buck. In many cases they are based on betas (that happens with all versions that came out of VB, C++, Delphi, not to mention XML) so their contents are not even accurate many times.
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>Contrast that with the quality of the VFP books published by Hentzenwerke. They take care to keep a high standard and not to repeat subjects.


...although I recall being quite frustrated with Whil's Inside Visual Foxpro 3.0 book for it's typos and examples which didn't work "as is" (I had to find fixes to get the examples to work).

Overall a good book though 'cause it taught me how to use VFP 3.0 and OOP concepts.