Links to other sites
These links are to web sites that we think will interest our clients, colleagues and friends.
Visual Foxpro forums and message boards
These sites are excellent places to get answers to all your Visual Foxpro technical questions.
Foxite. As well as its useful forum, this site includes a comprehensive selection of articles, downloads and FAQs.
Tek-Tips. A very busy forum, and a great place to get quick answers to VFP questions. The site also has forums for Crystal Reports, SQL Server and many other technologies.
Universal Thread. Another popular forum; it also has articles, news, classsified ads and links to third-party vendors.
More Foxpro sites
Alvechurch Data. A UK database consultancy offering help with FoxPro, Visual Basic and Access. The site includes a useful tips page.
BLogical Solutions. A Scottish software house, run by Bernie Beattie. As well as FoxPro, the company has expertise in C#, ASP.Net and SQL Server.
Civil Solutions. An Australian software house with strong GIS skills. The company is run by Andrew Coates, who is well-known for his frequent articles in the technical press.
D&S Business Solutions. London-based consulting house, run by Steve Dingle and Volker Stamme - two highly regarded VFP practitioners.
David Frankenbach. An author, developer and Microsoft MVP, David has some useful utilities and builders available for download.
dFPUG. Ein umfangreiches Suchportal mit Dokumentenbibliothek zu allen Aspekten von Visual FoxPro mit hunderten von sehr nützlichen Artikeln und anderen Dokumente. Es wird von der deutschsprachigen FoxPro User Group dFPUG betrieben.
Foxforum Wiki. A large Foxpro site, with thousands of documents in hundreds of categories. The most interesting thing about it is that anyone can contribute simply by editing any of the documents.
Foxpro Resources. If you're one of the many programmers still using a pre-Visual version of Foxpro (that is, Foxpro for Windows or Foxpro for DOS), this site is for you. As well as articles dealing with common problems (including Y2K issues and the problems of running FPW apps on fast machines), it also has links to upgrades, patches and help files.
Foxtools. Scott Butts maintains this interesting collection of VFP links, articles and downloads.
Object-Oriented Languages. Links to thousands of sites related to object-oriented programming.
PortalFox. Portal de Visual Foxpro en español. Contiene trucos, utilidades, artículos, foros, descargas y enlaces.
Tod Means Fox. A very informative blog by Tod McKenna. Tod is a long-time VFP developer with considerable expertise in business intelligence.
Crystal Reports sites
AR System Developer Community. For AR System developers, where individuals can discuss issues and share ideas and expertise.
Chelsea Technologies. A clued-up CR consultancy and training company, based in New Zealand. They also publish a free newsletter for CR users.
Crystal Reports for .NET. A comprehensive book aimed at VB.Net and C# programmers, by Brian Bischof. You can download extracts from the book free of charge. The printed version is available from Amazon.com.
CRYSTOB. A useful FAQ on CR interfacing and trouble-shooting.
Hammerman Associates. A long-established US-based consultancy, specialising in Crystal Reports and R&R Report Writer. The site includes a discussion forum, a newsletter and on-line shopping for reporting utilities and CR add-ons.
Online Crystal Reports Training RemoteCourse's high quality online courses help you to achieve your training goals conveniently at the pace and place of your choice. These online courses are a low-cost alternative to classroom training.
Add-ons and utilities
Abri Technologies. Lots of shareware, demos and freebies for developers. The company also supplies a sophisticated Foxpro file recovery utility.
Millet Software. We can recommend this company's excellent utilities for Crystal Reports users. They include Visual Cut (a tool for "bursting" reports, that is, splitting reports into separate units for printing, preview or export, based on the grouping within the report), and DataLink Viewer, which provides many options for viewing, refreshing, printing and exporting reports, even if you don't have CR installed.
TX Text Control. A full-featured word processor, implemented as a royalty-free ActiveX control, ready to drop into your VFP application.
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All links checked and updated: September 2007