Looking for Training info CD/Book

[JCreamerII]

I'm an old Clipper developer and am moving into Visual Foxprow, can anyone recommend a training CD and or book to start with.

Jim C.
Thanks,

 

[JRB-Bldr]

Welcome to the VFP Community.

The variety of VFP books at Hentzenwerke are the best:

http://www.hentzenwerke.com/catalog/zcatalogsubject.htm#visualfoxpro

And these free VFP training videos are good for getting a basic understanding:

http://www.garfieldhudson.com/FreeVideos.aspx

Good Luck,
JRB-Bldr

 

[Mike Lewis]

Hi Jim,

Welcome to Visual Foxpro, and to the forum.

As far as books are concerned, my personal recommendations are listed here:

http://www.ml-consult.co.uk/books.htm

Mike


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[Mike Gagnon]

And to add to the list, you'll find "Learning Foxpro" here:

http://www.sweetpotatosoftware.com/spsblog/2006/07/02/VisualFoxProVideos.aspx

Mike Gagnon

If you want to get the best response to a question, please check out FAQ184-2483 first.
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[academica]

I am in the same position as you, an ex-Clipper user learning VFP9.0 objects.
Very helpful to me were the free downloadable videos from sweet potato software (

http://www.sweetpotatosoftware.com/spsblog/2006/07/02/VisualFoxProVideos.aspx).

My favourite and most valuable resource is this forum.

VFP 9.0 SP2 on XP SP3

 

[academica]

In addition to the previous links, here is my list of links I've found so far (most are for advanced users)

http://www.foxite.com/forum/

http://doughennig.blogspot.com/

http://www.vfug.org/

(VFP User Group)

http://www.vfug.org/

(German VFP User Group, in German)

http://portal.dfpug.de/dfpug/

(in German)

http://www.code-magazine.com/

http://www.dbmonster.com/Uwe/ForumList.aspx/FoxPro

http://fox.wikis.com/wc.dll?Wiki~VisualFoxProWiki

http://sourceforge.net/search/?type_of_search=soft&words=fox+pro

http://fox.wikis.com/wc.dll?Wiki~VisualFoxProWiki

http://www.codeplex.com/activevfp

http://www.codeplex.com/mtmyvfp

http://www.codeplex.com/VFPX/

http://my.advisor.com/articles.nsf/...visual foxpro&SearchOrder=0&Start=1&Count=100

(Microsoft VFP Advisor)

http://www.news2news.com/vfp/

(Using Win32 functions in VFP)

http://www.vitus.com/vfp.html

http://www.foxforum.com/

(I could not register here)

http://www.west-wind.com/

http://www.universalthread.com/

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Search/en-US?query=foxpro&ac=1

(MSDN about VFP)

Links for programming, not only on VFP

http://bytes.com/

http://www.synchrondata.com/pheaven/main.htm

(Programmers Heaven)

http://code.google.com/intl/en/

(Google Code)

http://www.informit.com/index.aspx

(InformIT)

http://osdir.com/

VFP 9.0 SP2 on XP SP3

 

[GriffMG]

This community, tek-tips, is definitely the best resource for any kind of trouble shooting or advice.

It's not the place to learn VFP though, but that isn't such a leap for a Clipper programmer (I still am one).

Welcome

Regards

Griff
Keep [Smile]ing

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[JCreamerII]

Thanks for the info I'll dig into this stuff this weekend. I'll still be working in Clipper for another year or two, but the transition has started.

Thanks again,

Jim C.