| Link | Name | Description |
| AFP | AFPWeb sells Active FoxPro Pages, an extremely easy and powerful development tool for building web sites in Visual FoxPro. If you’ve been working in ASP but miss the power of FoxPro, this product will let you combine the two and have the best of both worlds. | www.afpweb.com |
| ArnicaCorp WebReport, WebFramework, FormServer | ArnicaCorp sells a thin client application development center written entirely in Visual FoxPro. As a result, scripting of reports and other components can be done in FoxPro. The application runs on your client’s server, but Igor Lozhkin is preparing a special deal for FoxPro developers that you can’t refuse. This is a big deal. | www.ArnicaCorp.com |
| ASP 101 | A great site for ASP and ASP.NET programming tips. Tons of examples on how to do anything you can think of. | www.ASP101.com |
| ASP.NET | The biggest, most comprehensive collection of ASP.NET resources available anywhere. From the more than 900 code samples in the QuickStart Tutorials section to the five excellent Starter Kit applications, you’ll find tons of help at this Microsoft-sponsored site. | www.ASP.NET |
| Bay.NET User Group | My local .NET User Group is one of the largest in the world, and is always a source of useful .NET links. If you’re in the area, stop in a visit. | www.baynetug.org |
| C# to VB.NET translator | This is a handy site for translating code from C# to VB. It’s not 100% accurate, but it often gets very close, and the remaining work is usually pretty obvious. | www.aspalliance.com/aldotnet/ examples/translate.aspx |
| CodeFixer | This site gives instructions on how to get started with ASP. Best place for beginners. | www.CodeFixer.com |
| Data Application Blocks | Tired of creating a connection so that you can create a dataadapter so you can create a command so you can create a commandobject so you can execute it and get your @#$%^ dataset? Me too. One-line commands, the way God intended. A HUGE breakthrough, announced without fanfare. From the fine folks who control our future. | msdn.microsoft.com/library/ default.asp?urlp |
| Data Dynamics | These guys sell ActiveReports, an inexpensive and excellent .NET component for building and running reports from your .NET server for viewing in thin or fat clients, as well as ActiveCube and DynamiCube OLAP components that will move your application into the enterprise market. Their #Grid component is fast and easy to use. | www.DataDynamics.com |
| DevForce | DevForce is an application generator that will instantly make you an expert in developing first-rate client-server and smart client applications in VB.NET or C#. This is the closest thing I’ve ever seen to building apps in Visual FoxPro. A special version for VFP developers is in the works. | www.IdeaBlade.com |
| Dot Net Junkies | Since I’ve downloaded several interesting and well-edited articles from this site, by definition it’s useful. Their emphasis is on ASP.NET, although I’ve also found useful Win Forms stuff. | www.DotNetJunkie.com |
| DotNetMagic | Phil Wright has built a most excellent set of UI controls that will make your apps look good with little or now work. Free download with good examples. | www.dotnetmagic.com/ |
| EPS Software | Markus Egger and company are on the leading edge of database software development. Their white papers are well worth the trip to the site. | www.eps-software.com |
| Farber Consulting Group | Doron Farber has released his Visual Report Engine Pro, which can
eliminate 95% of the work of building queries and reports, with output in printed, HTML, PDF, XML or table form. Works with DBFs, MS SQL, Oracle or Access. It reads all data dictionary metadata directly from the specified Database, such as tables, relations, fields name, field formats and captions. You can download it for a 30-day free trial. $445 per user. Supports multiple languages. | www.dfarber.com/vrep.htm |
| FoxForum | Rod Paddock is a very smart guy with lots of energy and enthusiasm, and a broader background than many FoxPro developers have. His insights into careers and technical solutions may point you in new directions in these unsettling times. And his rants are a hoot. | www.foxforum.com |
| FoxMasters | Michael Tretyakov has built the ultimate FoxPro add-in, a macro system based on his FoxScript library. It contains a great list of useful macros, and allows you to add your own. It costs $US50.00, and will pay for itself the first day you use it. | www.FoxMasters.com |
| FoxPress | Alberto Rodríguez, founder of FoxPress, organized the first FoxPro conferences in Spain. He also publishes a newsletter, hence the "Press" in the site name. An excellent source of high-quality information about FoxPro. If you don’t speak Spanish, this site is a good reason to learn it. | www.foxpress.com |
| Hentzenwerke | The only publisher of FoxPro books in the English language, since publishers were advised by Microsoft that there would be no FoxPro 8.0 at the very moment that VFP 8 was in beta. At least that’s what they told my publisher... | www.HentzenWerke.com |
| Infragistics | Infragistics has been around for a long time, and their experience shows. They sell COM and .NET components for grids, graphs, toolbars, navigation (e.g. the XP look and feel), scheduling and more. The prices are reasonable, and the products are first-rate. | www.Infragistics.com |
| Microsoft Users Group Argentina | The Microsoft Users Group of Argentina features information about Visual FoxPro and .NET., as well as lots of developer community support. | www.mug.org.ar |
| NetCoole ASP to ASP.NET converter | This product will convert an ASP site to an ASP.NET site with a high degree of accuracy. Even if it only saves you a day, at $US 595 it will pay for itself in a day. The company also has other migration products. | www.netcoole.com |
| ORM.NET - Object Relational Mapping Tool | This $400.00 product writes the middle-tier code that gives your forms independence from data management. Orm.NET builds an intuitive data layer fully enabled by Intellisense, giving you a huge head start on your database application development. | www.oler.com |
| Planet Source Code | Planet source code has a HUGE collection of reviews source code downloads. It's the largest collection of good-quality code anywhere, and it's FREE. | www.Planet-Source-Code.com |
| PortalFox | It’s dynamic, it’s content-rich, it’s in Spanish. Worth learning the language. And FoxPro is alive and well in Latin America, where they never did get much advertising for FoxPro from Microsoft, so they haven’t noticed that it’s gone. | www.PortalFox.com |
| QuickStart Tutorials | Microsoft’s library of demos and walkthroughs will give you working examples of useful techniques. | samples.gotdotnet.com/quickstart |
| RESolution Software, Inc. | XCase is a visual database design and documentation tool that is hand-crafted for each product that it works with. There are editions specifically for FoxPro, SQL Server, Oracle, DB2, MySQL and others, as well as a Professional version that works with everything. The Pro version is $799, but the FoxPro version is only $399. The Viewer, which does beautiful documentation and costs only $199, is great for preparing a database project for migration from FoxPro to .NET. | www.xcase.com |
| SourceAnywhere | I tried to use Visual SourceSafe, and it was a very frustrating experience. Then I discovered
SourceHero from DynamSoft, and it did exactly what I wanted. And, it was many times faster than VSS.
Their newest product, SourceAnywhere Standalone, is even faster and better. Besides Visual Studio,
SourceAnywhere is the best software investment I ever made. | www.DynamSoft.com |
| StoneField Systems | Doug Hennig is one of the best FoxPro developers anywhere. His Stonefield Data Tools product is essential for VFP application development. | www.Stonefield.com |
| Telerik RAD Editor | If you’ve been looking for an HTML editor to let your users add their own edited HTML entries to a database for display in a dynamic site, it has finally arrived. And it’s beautiful and cheap, too. From Bulgaria, with love. Look for their next product, a site designer currently in beta. Tell them Les says hi. | www.telerik.com |
| The Code Project | Thousands of downloads for .NET. A huge and valuable resource for developers. | www.codeproject.com/ |
| The Universal Thread | Simply the ultimate source for FoxPro developers. In addition to being useful for solving virtually any problem, it’s a showcase for what can be done with a FoxPro web server and an unlimited amount of time and energy. | www.UniversalThread.com |
| VB Helper | Rod Stephens has written over 180 articles and 12 books on VB. His latest, Visual Basic .NET Database Programming, is on our recommended reading list. Lots of source code you can download. | www.vb-helper.com |
| VBTV | laughed so hard my stomach hurt. Then I learned some really valuable stuff. Almost makes you like Microsoft. | msdn.microsoft.com/vbtv/ episode004/default.asp |
| VFP Network (Colombia) | This Spanish-language site features Visual FoxPro, and is written in AFP, so the site personnel have excellent experience implementing AFPWeb. | www.VFPNetwork.com |
| Virtual FoxPro Users’ Group (VFUG) | The VFUG is a huge and rich site with tons of references, examples, sample code, threads and more. I write a monthly column for their newsletter. | www.vfug.org |
| VisualFoxExpress | Toni and Mike Feltman are probably the world's top experts on FoxPro. Their application generator, Visual Fox Express, simplifies many aspects of application development. You'll produce professional-quality code the first time, and the time you save will pay for the product many times over. | www.F1Tech.com |
| VisualFoxExpress | Toni and Mike Feltman are probably the world's top experts on FoxPro. Their application generator, Visual Fox Express, simplifies many aspects of application development. You'll produce professional-quality code the first time, and the time you save will pay for the product many times over. | www.F1Tech.com |
| VisualFoxExpress | Toni and Mike Feltman are probably the world's top experts on FoxPro. Their application generator, Visual Fox Express, simplifies many aspects of application development. You'll produce professional-quality code the first time, and the time you save will pay for the product many times over. | www.F1Tech.com |
| VisualFoxExpress | Toni and Mike Feltman are probably the world's top experts on FoxPro. Their application generator, Visual Fox Express, simplifies many aspects of application development. You'll produce professional-quality code the first time, and the time you save will pay for the product many times over. | www.F1Tech.com |
| XML Web Services Newsletter by Yasser Shohoud | This is an amazing one-man show about Web Services and UDDI. Yasser is an INETA speaker, and if you get a chance to hear him give a talk, don’t miss it.. The Newsletter is a great resource, and best of all, it’s FREE. | www.learnxmlws.com/newsletter/ default.aspx |