TasTrade Sample Application - How to Run it ?

[PTcruiser225]

Ok - yes I am new to VFP 9.0.
My REALLY basic question is how to run the sample applications: Tastrade. Everything I see tells me ...
From the Program menu, choose Do.
Choose the \Samples\Tastrade folder.
Double-click Tastrade.app.

But There is no file with an APP extention ? I see the data files for Tastrade. Am I missing something?
I look on the Original CD and also can't find TASTRADE.APP ?

 

[Mike Lewis]

Hi PtCruiser,

Welcome to VFP, and to the forum.

I don't know who told you to run TASTRADE.APP, but the information is out of date. The Tastrade application disappeard after VFP 7.0.

In VFP 9.0, the database still exists, and is referenced in some of the examples in the Help, but the application has been axed.

In any case, most VFP folk consider Tastrade a poor way of learning the product. It is better to read the Help, peruse the samples, or get a good book.

Mike


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Mike Lewis (Edinburgh, Scotland)

My Visual FoxPro site: www.ml-consult.co.uk

 

[PTcruiser225]

Thanks Mike.

After some more digging I did find that TasTrade.app stopped with version 7. I was reading the Version 6 Fundamentals book as was suggested here, so it mentioned it. I would like to see more real life code already running so I can get the big picture - helps me understand faster. Its tough with 9 coming with no books - but Fundamentals is really good. Just been a while since I stopped with Dos 2.6 and OOP is very new to me.

Thanks again for your reply
p.s is there anywhere to get Tastrade.app from another site?

 

[Mike Lewis]

PTCruiser,

is there anywhere to get Tastrade.app from another site?

Not that I know of, but you could try a Google search.

As for books, I've got some reviews and recommendations on my own site (see

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

although it's quite out of date now. The Fundamentals book is as good as any.

Mike


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Mike Lewis (Edinburgh, Scotland)

My Visual FoxPro site: www.ml-consult.co.uk

 

[pthalacker]

PTCruiser,

"Fundamentals" is a really good book. The source code from it will probably do you more good than Tastrade. Keep a look out for the things that were fixed in 7,8 & 9 that make some of the work-around code in VFP6 unnecessary.

pamela