Introduction

Visual Extend 8.0 is an Application Development Framework for Software Developers working with Microsoft Visual FoxPro Version 8.0. Visual Extend includes a Class Library and Builders which assist the Software Developer in its daily work and dramatically speed up the software development process without sacrifying any of the Visual FoxPro features. With Visual Extend, Visual FoxPro becomes a real Rapid Application Development Tool for both Desktop and Client Server Database Application Development.

Visual FoxPro is an outstanding Software Development Environment. Thanks to its Object Orientation and ActiveX Capabilities, the Software Developer's dream of easy code reuse of either personally developed, or third party modules becomes true. But starting to develop its own Software Development Environment around Visual FoxPro from scratch is a major undertaking. Not only that it's difficult to develop a solid Class Library as a Foundation Class for all to be developed Applications. It's also rather time consuming to use these Classes and manually fill in the right Properties and Methods in the Property Sheet while developing new Applications all over again.

Visual Extend for Visual FoxPro fills exactly this gap by bringing a complete Application Development Framework to the Visual FoxPro Software Developer Community. Thanks to the modular design of Visual Extend, every Software Developer can decide whether to use all or only some parts of the Visual Extend Application Development Framework. The Object Orientation of Visual Extend allows the Developers to subclass existing Visual Extend Classes to further customize or enhance their preferred Development Environment.

Visual Extend is not just a Foundation Class Library. It's much more. Visual Extend provides the Software Developer with a powerful Foundation Class Library with equally powerful Builders for a maximum of productivity gain. Visual Extend includes the following components:

• Modular, Microsoft Compliant Visual Extend Foundation Class Library with extensive Application Development Support
• Visual Extend Builders for Application, Form, Grid, Picklist and One To Many Forms
• Other Visual Extend Developers Productivity Tools

VFX helps you to create your Visual FoxPro Applications in a higher quality in much less time and therefore increases your productivity dramatically. And all this without loosing any of the FoxPro Features you like and use. Let's be more productive with Visual Extend for Visual FoxPro!

NOTE: VFX does not include a banana layer between Visual FoxPro and you, the developer. The developer works directly within VFP and has not to learn another piece of user interface, except for the builders.