VFP newbieeee

[cyexpert]

Hi i new to VFP and i want to make a simple program that reads from a file or table and store some values to another. where i can read some tutorials about the languange generally? I have search the web and found nothing to start with, anyone knows something to help me ?

Thanks a lot


Nicholas

 

[JRB-Bldr]

Since your question is general in nature, you might want to consider posting it in:
Microsoft: VFP -General Coding Issues Forum
forum184
instead of in the more-specifically-focused forum:
Microsoft: VFP - Databases, SQL&VFP, and Reports Forum

Also, within that General Coding thread, you might also want to look at posting:
thread184-530939

Good Luck,
JRB-Bldr

 

[Stella740pl]

For starters, VFP's own Help is quite useful.
By the way, which version do you use?
For VFP6 there is on-line tutorial at

http://docs.rinet.ru:8083/GlyadiLisu/

).
For VFP7 & VFP8, you can find on-line Documentation in MSDN Library on Microsoft site at

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnanchor/html/vfpanchor.asp

There are tons of other resources out there, including books, articles, etc.
VFP has 5 forums here on Tek-Tips, so if you read the threads and FAQs, you will pick up a lot, too. With questions you can come here for help.

 

[Mike Lewis]

Nicholas,

For some recommended books on VFP, see:

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

Mike


Mike Lewis
Edinburgh, Scotland

My Visual Foxpro web site:

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

My Crystal Reports web site:

http://www.ml-crystal.com

 

[cyexpert]

Thank you all and sorry if i posted my question in a wrong place . by the way i use the VFP 9 but i have also v8 install in another pc

 

[wgcs]

To give you a quick intro to VFP file i/o:

VFP has multiple ways of doing file i/o:
1) R/W: native data access to .DBF files: USE (cFileName); REPLACE fieldname WITH value
2) R/W: ODBC access to any ODBC data source (including .DBF files, .MDB files, .XLS spreadsheets, SqlServer, MySql, etc)
3) R/W: Low-level functions: fOpen, fRead, fGetS, fWrite, fPutS, fEof(), etc
4) R/W: quick and simple access: FileToStr(cFromFilename), StrToFile(cString, cOutFileName)
5) Write only: SET TEXTMERGE TO (cFileName)

Look for these keywords in the help.

Also look at READ EVENTS in the help.

- Bill

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