… brings VFP’s considerable OOP (object oriented programming) muscle into … Page 100 Visual FoxPro® 9.0 Reporting With External Data 7.1 Introducing the _frxcommand object As is typical … Create a VFP reporting application Page XIII Introduction This book gives you the tools and techniques you need to use Visual FoxPro 9.0 for reporting applications, no matter what type of database you use and no matter what type of programmer you are. Who should read this book Database developers who have never used Visual FoxPro can use this book

This tutorial does not assume any previous VFP knowledge. If you are not currently a VFP developer, start at the first, brief chapter (Prepare your development environment) and read straight through to the last chapter, at whatever rate feels comfortable to you. At the beginning, you will learn to access your data interactively and easily in the Visual FoxPro development environment. In the middle, you will learn about VFP report construction and applying VFP object-oriented design techniques to reports. By the end, you will be delivering and deploying polished reporting applications. If you are already a VFP user, you don’t need help learning to use the VFP IDE, so you can begin in chapter 2 (Bring your data into Visual FoxPro) . If you’ve been using external data for a long time, you may be tempted to skip chapter 2 as well, but give it a quick skim first. You may find some of the book’s recommendations for data use with reports to be a little different from what you use in your current VFP applications, and chapter 2’s introductory instructions will let you know what to expect. The book’s approach to data access is tuned for a reporting-centric use of external data, in cases where little or no application-specific Visual FoxPro code should be expected to surround the generation of report output. For this reason, the instructions bind the data closely to reports. They also emphasize retrieval of large, read-only data sets, as is appropriate for reporting applications. You can substitute any VFP data-handling mechanism that you prefer after you review this section of the book. Non-VFP developers and VFP developers who are not experienced with reports can use chapters 3 (Create reports) and 4 (Customize your report layouts) as a basic course in report design. VFP developers experienced with reports can review chapter 3 briefly its recommendations on data access techniques (sections “Add data instructions to the report” and “Improve your data environment Settings”), and check chapter 4 for any layout tips and tricks that may be new to them in VFP 9.

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