Visual FoxPro to Visual Basic .NET

by Les Pinter

Starting with simple examples, you'll see how the multi-user, local area network applications that Visual FoxPro developers are used to building are constructed in Visual Basic .NET. You'll learn how to use Crystal Reports to build reports like the ones you build in FoxPro. You'll discover how to use DataAdapters and datasets instead of DBFs. You'll see examples of the paradigm shift that client-server programming imposes, and why .NET solves that problem (even when you wouldn't need to solve it in FoxPro.) And you'll learn how to give your FoxPro and Visual Basic applications smart client remote data access. You'll understand how to begin the construction of a database project in Visual Basic with a container form and a MainMenu instead of using _Screen and MSYSMENU. You'll learn how variables are declared and used; how menus are controlled; how to use events, and why you have to use events in VB when they're unnecessary in FoxPro. You'll learn how to build inheritable forms, Visual B