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Chapter One Introduction to Visual FoxPro

Chapter One Introduction to Visual FoxPro. Background Advantages User interface Exit Visual FoxPro. Knowledge about Visual FoxPro.

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Chapter One Introduction to Visual FoxPro

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  1. Visual FoxPro--Ch1 By CHANG YU Chapter One Introduction to Visual FoxPro • Background • Advantages • User interface • Exit Visual FoxPro

  2. Visual FoxPro--Ch1 By CHANG YU Knowledge about Visual FoxPro • Visual FoxPro is a product of Microsoft. It come from the FoxBase Which design by Foxholding Co. FoxPro is database management system. It can manipulate and query the data in the database. • Advantage: • Provide the object-oriented programming syntax. • Rushmore • Visual Tools • Support multimedia database

  3. Visual FoxPro--Ch1 By CHANG YU Execute Visual FoxPro • User interface : • Menu bar : using the mouse to choice the function. • Tool bar: function picture. • Command Window: the place where we can write down the command. • Display window: display the final result. • Status bar: explain the status.

  4. Visual FoxPro--Ch1 By CHANG YU Menu bar Command Window Tool bar Main screen Status bar

  5. Visual FoxPro--Ch1 By CHANG YU Exit Visual FoxPro • Press the button : • <File> --> <Exit> • Type the quit in command window. • System control button --> <Exit> • Double click the “Fox ‘s head”. Alt + F4 X

  6. Visual FoxPro--Ch1 By CHANG YU Command window • Call the command window: • <window> --> <command window> • press the buttons • Non case-sensitive • Dir *.dbf = dir *.dbf • Repeat • Abbreviate • Breaking command over lines with “ ;”. • Auto checking the command • Font Ctrl F2 +

  7. Visual FoxPro--Ch1 By CHANG YU Help • Help command: display the message about using method. • Press the button: F1

  8. Visual FoxPro--Ch1 By CHANG YU File Extension • *.dbc database file • *.dbf table file • *.fpt memo file • *.frx report file • *.prg, .spr, .mpr program file • *.qpr query file • *.scx, *.sct form file

  9. Visual FoxPro--Ch1 By CHANG YU Homework • What is the advantage of Visual FoxPro? • How many parts of the main screen? • How to call back the command window? • How to exit from the Visual FoxPro? • What will be display in status bar, if we input the command “use student” ?

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