MegaFox: 1002 Things You Wanted to Know About Extending Visual FoxPro

Rating:
Summary: Essential resource for VFP developers
Review: I must say that I think this is an excellent book, and I have to recommend it whole-heartedly. By now, everyone knows this is not just a sequel to KiloFox, right? It contains information on things that you might expect from the title: ActiveX controls, graphing, e-mail, and PDF output. But there is so much more than I expected: COM/COM+, internet/web development, design patterns, XML, ADO, and more. I had been wondering about the implications of using multi-threaded DLLs, and the whole time it was fully explained in this book. Of course, in KiloFox fashion, it provides a lot of code you can use in your own apps. This is easily one of my favorite VFP books, and I put it up there with the Hacker's Guide in terms of usefulness to VFP developers.

Rating:
Summary: Essential resource for VFP developers
Review: I must say that I think this is an excellent book, and I have to recommend it whole-heartedly. By now, everyone knows this is not just a sequel to KiloFox, right? It contains information on things that you might expect from the title: ActiveX controls, graphing, e-mail, and PDF output. But there is so much more than I expected: COM/COM+, internet/web development, design patterns, XML, ADO, and more. I had been wondering about the implications of using multi-threaded DLLs, and the whole time it was fully explained in this book. Of course, in KiloFox fashion, it provides a lot of code you can use in your own apps. This is easily one of my favorite VFP books, and I put it up there with the Hacker's Guide in terms of usefulness to VFP developers.

Rating:
Summary: Excellent book for VFPiers
Review: This is the first time I write a book review here but I did it because I felt the need to.

The book is an excellent resource guide for vfp developers.
It is intended for intermediate and experienced programmers who want to master VFP. It covers technologies/tools and other aspects that a developer can integrate within its applications. The book covers in great detail Activex, Email, PDF Reports,Charts, internet access, COM/COM+, SQLServer/MSDE and more...

However, the book has a good introduction on design patterns with good examples and many tips on deployment and testing.

My favorite chapter is chapter 13 that talks about pragmatic reusable data classes for talking to different backends.

In addition the reader can find a huge collection of very sophisticated functions /classes in the source that is provided with the book.

Finally, the reader can download the electronic format of the book from Hentzenwerke.com that it was very practical for me.