>THANKS PAUL!
>
>Just tried the line you suggested, it works perfectly. I sure appreciate having
>you guys here. I tried for a couple of hours last night to get this.
>Thanks a million. Next time I'll ask before driving myself crazy. As you
>can probably tell I'm a "wanna-be developer". But I intend on getting much more
>proficient with VFP over the coming year. You will probably see me around here
>alot asking questions.
>
>Do you know of any good home study courses for VFP? I've been reading the manuals
>and 3rd party's such as "VFP 3.0 Unleashed", but I need more guidance as in the
>form of a course. Thanks again.
>
>Elgin.

I am not the right person to offer guidance. As far as I see from messages here, newsgroups and talking with other VFP programmers, there are 2 main difficulties in learning VFP: OOP and the xBase language. Some programmers know FoxPro but the OOP part is the big step. Others know OOP and the xBase language is somehow difficult. Obviously, some don't know either, so they have 2 big steps. :)

When I started with VFP, I already knew OOP from C++ and Pascal and I already knew very well the basic language from dBase and previous FoxPro. So, it was not difficult for me. I took about 1 week to look into the Tastrade sample, another week to see what I can do with the new visual tools and that was all. Obviously, I can't say I was very good after that 2 weeks. But I could develop a pretty good medium application. And I was happy when the programmer that finished it told me that it was very easy to enter into it and add new facilities. Of course, I know now that it had a lot of bad points. :) So, I never read a VFP book from one cover to the other. I looked in many VFP books and I'm still doing it from time to time. But I prefer to read C/C++ and programming techniques books.

I also learn a lot from here (ie Universal Thread), user group meetings, looking into code written by other good programmers.

Courses? you should look into your area. And I can't help you here. I'm not interested in general VFP courses. I prefer to attend specific subject presentations and, from this point of view, we have a good user group here in Montreal. Also, you can go to DevDays, Devcon or other conferences like that. Unfortunately, the last FoxTeach was last year and it will not be another one anymore.

I consider that attending a 3 days conference gives me more than reading one good book. A one day good conference may be equiv to one book as well.

Hopefuly, others will reply to you with more help for you... :)

Vlad