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480 The Fundamentals of Visual FoxPro 6.0
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Figure 16.23. Stonefield Query from Stonefield Systems.
Stonefield Reports
Stonefield Reports is an end-user report manager/writer. It sports a simple “wizard” interface—
after selecting a report from the TreeView list of reports, your users can select the sort order,
enter filter conditions, and select where the output should go (printer, disk file, spreadsheet,
screen preview, and so on). See Figure 16.24.
In addition to running predefined reports, you can teach your users how to create their own
“quick” reports in just minutes. They simply select which fields to report on from the list of
available fields (full-text descriptions, of course), and they’re done! For finer control, they can
select from a “Field Properties” dialog how each field should appear, including column
heading, grouping, and totaling.
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Visual FoxExpress
The Visual FoxExpress Framework, from F1 Technologies, is the first complete n-tier solution
for Visual FoxPro that’s suitable for all types of application development. It’s a framework
that’s lean enough to deliver the performance your applications require and flexible enough to
allow you to easily incorporate the complex business rules they need. It separates user
interface, business rules, and data. It’s possible to create user interfaces that are not directly
bound to data at all. VFE apps can be deployed as COM or DCOM objects with no user
interface, accessible from other front-ends such as ASP or DHTML Web pages, or built with
other tools such as Visual Basic. FoxExpress generates 100% Visual FoxPro code, and if you
need to get applications up and running quickly, you should have this in your bag of tricks. See
Figure 16.25.