new to FoxPro

[gc]

Hi! I am new to Visual FoxPro. Please recommend some books about FoxPro.
Thanks a lot!
GC

 

[baltman]

Mike Lewis has a book review page. Using Visual FoxPro 6 is a good book for beginers. I don't know if there's a newer one or not. Hacker's Guide is not... wait on that one.

http://www.ml-consult.demon.co.uk/MLCBooks.htm

And of course, if you look at these books on Amazon.com, you'll see all the related books w/user comments.

Brian

 

[gc]

Brian,
Thank you so much!
GC

 

[rgbean]

GC,
The best VFP books are available at

http://www.hentzenwerke.com/

- "Fundamentals: Building Visual Studio Applications on a VFP Foundation" is a good one to start with. They have ebook versions to save you the cost of shipping.

There are some tutorials available at

http://msdn.microsoft.com/vfoxpro/technical/training.asp.

You may also want to check out some free training at

http://www.free-ed.net/fr03/lfc/030101/129/.

If you have a training budget, consider MicroEndeavors
(

http://www.microendeavors.com/)

- they have both classes and self-study courses. There are others offering training, it's just I know these are good, having used them.

Some other training options are:
TakeNote -

http://www.takenote.com

KeyStone Learning -

http://www.keystonelearning.com

(VFP -

http://www.keystonelearning.com/cgi...stonecat.d2w/report?cgmenbr=7020&cgrfnbr=1117

)
AppDev -

http://www.appdev.com/

(VFP -

http://www.appdev.com/topics/product.asp?ID=7

)

There is also the UT (

http://www.universalthread.com/),

FoxForum (

http://www.foxforum.com/),

Virtual FoxPro User Group (

http://vfug.org:8080/)

and the Wiki (

http://fox.wikis.com/),

not to mention a number of news server forums - all good resources for peer "group" based help.

Rick