Rick Borup
Rick Borup is owner and president of Information Technology Associates, a professional software development, computer services, and information systems consulting firm he founded in 1993. Rick earned BS and MBA degrees from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and spent several years developing software applications for mainframe computers before turning to microcomputer database development tools in the late 1980’s. He began working with FoxPro in 1991, and has worked full time in Fox...

AgeCalculator is a Visual FoxPro® class to calculate a person's age in years, months, and days. This release features a complete replacement of the core logic using custom methods to handle the calculation of 'next month' and 'next year' and gives more accurate results when the date range starts on ...

Zip Automation Manager is back under its new name. Zip Automation Manager is a Visual FoxPro® class that allows you to run WinZip® programmatically. Using the ZipMgr class, you can control WinZip® from within your VFP application to create ZIP files (archives), add files to existing ZIP archives, an...

FOXMAPI.H is a header file of the MAPI control constants, formatted for Microsoft Visual FoxPro.

rbInputBox() is a simple, general-purpose input box for Visual FoxPro. Although VFP now has a native InputBox() function (as of VFP 7.0), rbInputBox() provides certain functionality not available in the native VFP InputBox() function, such as the ability to handle character, date, numeric, and curre...

INSTRING() searches for an occurrence of one string in another string. Unlike VFP's "$" function, INSTRING() treats the searched string as a series of substrings whose length is equal to the length of the string being sought. This is useful for validating codes that are greater than one character in...

A classlib to add a "tip of the day" feature to your VFP apps. Easy to use and completely documented. Compiled with VFP6/SP3 but works with VFP5 as well. See the "readme" file for details and instructions. Freeware... enjoy!

Use this class to make numeric data display the way you want it to while it's being entered. You can choose adding machine style (implied decimal) or calculator style (explicit decimal). Comes with a sample form and a readme file with examples.    The control now allows for default behavior of the ...

PROGBAR.VCX is a ready-to-use progress bar featuring a dynamic title and message line in a simple, nice-looking form. Built using the COMMCTRL class library by Alexander Grigorjev, which is included here with his permission.   This version of PROGBAR (3.0.001) is updated to use v3.0 of COMMCTRL and...