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ADVISOR ANSWERS Get a solution to this common problem that's built right into Windows. By Christof Wollenhaupt, contributing editor ADVISOR TIPS FILETOSTR() is easier to use than low-level file functions, but is it efficient? By Art Bergquist ADVISOR TIPS How to use these two Vsual FoxPro functions in SQL SELECT statements. By Mike Lewis, contributing editor ADVISOR TIPS Here's how to make sure the build number is always up to date. By Rick Schummer ADVISOR TIPS How to set the mouse pointer to indicate no-drop zones. By Mike Lewis, contributing editor ADVISOR TIPS Use FOXOBJECT to avoid problems with collections. By Mike Lewis, contributing editor APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT Integrate Microsoft English Query with your Visual FoxPro applications. By Mike Lewis VISUAL FOXPRO ADVISOR TIPS Here's how to check for the SenderName property. By Mike Lewis, contributing editor MICROSOFT VISUAL FOXPRO Is it poor coding practice to use DECLARE commands to call Windows API functions? By Mike Lewis, contributing editor VISUAL FOXPRO ADVISOR TIPS VFP has supported transparency in GIFs since version 6 -- but only for the Image control. Here's how to get around that. By Mike Lewis, contributing editor VISUAL FOXPRO ADVISOR ANSWERS For better or worse, paying attention to the details (or not) sends an important signal to your users. By Christof Wollenhaupt, contributing editor VISUAL FOXPRO ADVISOR ANSWERS Find out if the problems with SP2 should prevent you from upgrading. By Tamar E. Granor, technical editor VISUAL FOXPRO ADVISOR TIPS When using Word Automation to do a mailmerge, you'll get an OLE Idispatch error. Here's how to avoid that error. By Mike Lewis, contributing editor VISUAL FOXPRO ADVISOR ANSWERS Here's a design that will streamline the maintenance of your application. By Pamela Thalacker, contributing editor VISUAL FOXPRO ADVISOR TIPS If you tend to rearrange system windows during development, here's a way to easily restore their default size, position, and dock status. By Mike Lewis, contributing editor
USER INTERFACE DESIGN Use this cool message box to alert your users of important events. By Mike Lewis ADVISOR ANSWERS Learn about the ins and outs of encryption for the purpose of protecting your custom software licenses. By Christof Wollenhaupt, contributing editor ADVISOR ANSWERS If you spend a lot of time working in the Toolbox, you might find that, after a while, it becomes cluttered with categories and classes. Here's how to use filters so the Toolbox only offers a subset of the categories (and you can easily switch between filters). By Tamar E. Granor, technical editor
ADVISOR ANSWERS When you need to have several forms appear together, is it better to use individual forms or a formset? By Tamar E. Granor, technical editor ADVISOR ANSWERS If you want to add an icon to multiple forms, can you do it all at once or do you have to modify each form individually? By Tamar E. Granor, technical editor ADVISOR ANSWERS Suppose you need to read from and write to multi-sheet Excel tables but, for security reasons or because not all of your users have Microsoft Office, you can't use Office automation. Here are your options. By Pamela Thalacker, contributing editor MICROSOFT VISUAL FOXPRO Is it poor coding practice to use DECLARE commands to call Windows API functions? By Mike Lewis, contributing editor
ADVISOR TIPS If you're like many developers, you probably log into an application many, many times a day when testing. Here's a shortcut. By Catherine Prentice ADVISOR TIPS VFP’s BETWEEN() function is useful for checking to see if a date lies within a given range, but it doesn't handle empty dates very well. Martin Griffin ADVISOR TIPS VFP Cannot Import Excel 2007 Workbooks. Here's a workaround. By David Hagen ADVISOR TIPS Contrary to what you might expect, clicking a checkbox does not select the row in which the checkbox resides. Here's a workaround. By Don Higgins WINDOWS VISTA The Windows Vista User Interface gets a well-needed makeover, yet how can you make it work for you? By Doug Hennig
ADVISOR TIPS Here's how to add a progress bar during time-consuming processes, so users understand things are happening behind the scenes and that the application hasn't hung. By Richard Greene DATABASE DESIGN Develop a data integration solution using Visual FoxPro and the data warehouse. By Tod McKenna ADVISOR TIPS Get step-by-step instructions to create a data dictionary that makes designing a database easier. By Thomas Francl ADVISOR ANSWERS Learn how to have your Visual FoxPro application send error reports to the manufacturer or to Microsoft. By Christof Wollenhaupt ADVISOR ANSWERS Learn how to make adding comments even easier. By Tamar E. Granor DEVELOPMENT VFP makes extensive use of indexes to optimize queries and commands By Andy Kramek and Marcia Akins
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