Our Contract with You, The Reader -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- About the Authors -- How to Download the Files -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Organization -- Get the picture -- What about the code? -- Go to it -- Section 1 Developer Productivity -- Chapter 1 IntelliSense -- What IntelliSense offers -- Automatic keyword completion -- Command and function syntax tips -- List of members -- Early binding -- Values list -- Most recently used file list -- Table, field, and variable lists -- Configuring IntelliSense -- IntelliSense Manager -- Configuring IntelliSense programmatically -- Scripting IntelliSense -- Creating your own shortcuts -- Hooking into the default script -- Other IntelliSense-related items -- Summary -- Chapter 2 Editor Enhancements -- Writing code -- Parenthesis matching -- Dirty file indicator -- Live hyperlinks -- Formatting code -- Tabs vs. spaces -- Visible white space -- More options to set -- More menu items -- Working with existing code -- Moving around in the editor -- Marking points -- Finding text -- Finding places -- Better access to files -- Summary -- Chapter 3 New and Better Tools -- Modern menus -- Class and Form Designers -- Drilling down into containers -- Identifying ActiveX PEMs -- Identifying inherited methods -- Preserving case in parameters statements -- "Real" grid coordinates -- Project Manager -- Report Designer -- Distributing applications -- Creating an InstallShield Express project -- Organize your setup -- Specify application data -- Configure the target system -- Customize the setup appearance -- Define setup requirements -- Prepare for release -- Other InstallShield Express information -- Window behavior -- Dockable windows -- Properties Window enhancements -- Other window enhancements -- Task List -- Improved debugging -- Active Accessibility and the Accessibility Browser.

Automated testing -- Modify Procedure and View -- New FFC classes -- New samples -- Summary -- Chapter 4 More IDE Changes -- Things that aren't there anymore -- Windows 2000 logo requirements -- Interaction with Windows -- What's left? -- Shareable resource file -- Persistent Command Window -- Menu changes -- Options dialog changes -- Starting VFP -- Final IDE thoughts -- Section 2 Developing Desktop Applications -- Chapter 5 Data -- New and enhanced language elements -- ASessions() -- ATagInfo() -- Browse -- GetNextModified() -- In clause -- IsReadOnly() -- SQL Select -- Set Reprocess -- SYS(3054) -- Use -- Validate Database Recover -- Database events -- DBC event descriptions -- Using DBC events -- VFP OLE DB provider -- Using the OLE DB provider -- Stored procedures and database events -- Summary -- Chapter 6 OOP Enhancements -- Creating classes -- Exploring classes -- New and enhanced PEMs -- Multi-class changes -- Form and toolbar changes -- Changes to controls -- ProjectHook changes -- Summary -- Chapter 7 Strings -- Text-merge improvements -- Parsing strings -- Miscellaneous string changes -- Summing up -- Chapter 8 Resource Management -- Compiler and variable management -- #Include -- Compile -- _VFP.LanguageOptions -- File system management -- ADir() -- ANetResources() -- DiskSpace() -- GetDir() and CD ? -- DLL management -- ADLLS() -- Clear DLLS -- Declare DLL -- Language management -- GetFont() -- Language resource files -- SYS(2300) -- Input and display -- DisplayPath() -- InputBox() -- SYS(602) -- Windows setting management -- _DblClick and _IncSeek -- Set('Century') -- Memory management -- SYS(1104) -- SYS(2600) -- Other changes -- _Screen and _VFP -- AStackInfo() -- Home() -- Set Help -- Splash screen -- Run time files -- Version() -- Summary -- Chapter 9 Arrays -- Returning arrays from functions.

Better searching and sorting in arrays -- Improved searching -- Case-insensitive sorts -- Summing up -- Chapter 10 Bits and Pieces -- BitOr(), BitXor(), and BitAnd() -- CToT() -- ExecScript() -- MessageBox() -- OS() -- Quarter() -- Summary -- Section 3 Developing Components -- Chapter 11 Building Component-Based Software -- Creating monolithic applications -- Creating component-based, n-tier applications -- An introduction to business objects -- Benefits of using business objects -- Bridging the semantic gap -- Beating the "where's the code" problem -- Normalizing application logic -- Business objects in COM servers -- Location transparency with DCOM -- Understanding MTS and COM+ -- What does .NET mean for COM? -- The Common Language Runtime -- The .NET component standard -- Summary -- Chapter 12 Building World-Class COM Servers in VFP 7 -- Building a COM server -- In-process and out-of-process servers -- Storing VFP 7 COM classes -- Understanding type libraries -- Registry files -- Introducing the Object Browser -- Opening type libraries -- Viewing type libraries -- Viewing class details -- Object Browser caching -- Understanding constants and enums -- Searching type libraries -- Setting Object Browser options -- Installing add-ins for the Object Browser -- The FoxRuntime Registry key identifier -- Method and property visibility -- Specifying visibility in Visual FoxPro 6 -- Specifying visibility in Visual FoxPro 7 -- Specifying read-only and write-only properties -- Specifying property and method attributes -- Using COMATTRIB arrays to specify attributes -- Specifying method attributes -- Strong typing -- Returning VOID from methods -- Passing strongly typed parameters by reference -- Using the Session class in COM servers -- Passing arrays to COM servers -- Returning information about a COM object -- Accessing COM components from .NET.

.NET assemblies and manifests -- .NET early and late binding -- Using the Type Library Importer to achieve early binding -- Using the IL Disassembler tool -- Accessing your COM server from ASP.NET -- Advanced server capabilities -- Using the new COMPROP() function -- SYS(2336)-critical section support -- SYS(2339)-clean up references to unused libraries -- SYS(2340)-specifying NT service support -- Summary -- Chapter 13 Implementing Interfaces -- Understanding interfaces -- Interfaces in Visual FoxPro COM servers -- Understanding interface inheritance -- Supporting multiple interfaces -- Creating new interfaces for new versions of COM components -- Implementing interfaces in Visual FoxPro 7 -- Supplying default implementations for interface members -- Avoiding compiler errors -- Using the Object Browser to implement interfaces -- Protecting implemented interface methods -- Creating interfaces in Visual FoxPro -- IUnknown, vtables, and early binding -- IDispatch and late binding -- Visual FoxPro as an early-binding client -- Early binding with CREATEOBJECTEX() -- Early binding with GETINTERFACE() -- Advanced COM server commands -- SYS(3095)-IDispatch pointer -- SYS(3097)-add reference to object -- SYS(3098)-release object reference -- Summary -- Chapter 14 Playing in the COM+ Sandbox -- COM event binding -- Incoming and outgoing interfaces -- Connectable Objects -- Outgoing interfaces and Visual FoxPro -- Event binding with EventHandler() -- The downside of event binding -- Introducing COM+ services -- COM+ applications -- Creating a COM+ application -- COM+ Events -- A COM+ Events example -- Persistent and Transient Subscriptions -- The Persistent Subscriber COM+ Events example -- Looking under the hood -- Creating and configuring the BookPub Event class -- Creating and configuring a BookSub1 Subscriber -- Running the Persistent Subscriber example.

Filtering events -- The Transient Subscriber COM+ Events example -- Setting up the Event and Publisher -- Setting up the Subscriber -- Running the Transient Subscriber example -- Queued Components -- Queued Component interfaces -- A Queued Components example -- Setting up the Queued Components example -- Running the Queued Components example -- Looking under the hood -- Running the Queued Components example with Listener off -- Turning the Listener back on -- Summary -- Chapter 15 Working with Web Services -- Introducing XML -- The structure of an XML document -- Elements -- Attributes -- Comments -- Well-formed XML -- Reserved characters -- Element-centric and attribute-centric XML -- Schemas and valid XML -- XML namespaces -- XML functions in Visual FoxPro 7 -- CursorToXML() -- XMLToCursor() -- XMLUpdateGram() -- VFPXMLProgID -- Introducing Web Services -- Real, live Web Services! -- Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) -- Using the SOAP Toolkit 2.0 -- Installing the SOAP Toolkit -- Web Services Description Language (WSDL) -- Web Services Meta Language (WSML) -- SOAP Listeners -- Visual FoxPro 7.0 Web Services extensions -- Registering a Web Service -- Calling Web Services -- Publishing Web Services -- The Web Services project hook -- Summary -- Appendix: New Installation Features -- Installing VFP 7 -- Installing other components -- Other installation issues -- Summary.