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I have simple ASP page which calls .NET web service. The code is working fine on my local machine but it is not working on server. On my local machine I have mssoap1.dll under directory C:\Program Files\Common Files\MSSoap\Binaries.
On...

I am using VFP9 on a Win2k machine.  I have a form with the picture property set to this image file: http://www.flantech.net/images/background.jpg

On this form, I use an image control to display an animated GIF which has a transparent...

which website provide the very best free tutorial program to learn basic foxpro 6.0 and above

I create a .exe file, and run in another station.  It shows the message
"cannot locate the microsoft visual foxpro support library", it cannot run.

Then I add 2 files vfp6r.dll, vfp6renu.dll in c:\windows\system, it works.

Can I skip to...

I am attempting to capture images via a Foxpro form and save those images to a Foxpro field.  I have a blob field defined in my table.  Once I have those images captured I want to be able to display them on the same form.

I have users who want...

I have a AIX 5.3 ML08 server. When I try to login with SSH, both as root user and non-root user, it fails with permission denied error message.

Below is the output,
ssh -l user etr6506l3-aix93.ca.com
user@etr6506l3-aix93.ca.com's password:...

We have an application that we use on a daily basis that runs on FoxPro 2.5;  We own it but the developer is long gone..  

We had to replace the XP Pro PC it was running on.  We were advised the XP is going away, but Windows 7 Pro (64 bit)...

where can i find a site to download foxpro 2.6 (free download)
thanks

I have a Foxpro 2.6 app. that one of my departments uses on approx. 8 pc's. All of the pc's are the same model and all run Windows XP Pro. When I launch the program I get: I/O Operation failure  about 50% of the time, the other 50% it runs just...

No success in getting Windows 7 to add Foxpro ODBC Driver v6.01 under Data Sources (ODBC)

Anyone have any ideas?

Dear Sir,

I am in need of FOXPRO DECOMPILERS.
I need the complete version of decompilers.
Please tell me the site address, where I can download it freely.

Thanks & Regards

G Aravamuthan
SLST
Ragunathaouram
Arni, TamilNadu
INDIA

Hi Experts,

I want to connect foxpro database with php. I have a code to connect locally.

The code is below.  (Using ODBC - with Local system)
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$conn =...

Hi,
 I am trying to make a connection using the ODBC admin to a visual foxpro database that I will ultimatly access in borlandc via ADO.
I am running windows XP SP1 when I select the add in ODBC admin user DSN I select the foxpro driver, I get...

Everything works just fine, except that changing the DATE() part to an actual date value, or even an integer (using a calculation), does not work. What must I put into a date field for a FoxPro DBF file?

I'm trying to use the code below to check for the existence of a .ini file, if it does not exist, create it. If it exists but is empty prompt the user for a path, then write the path to the file. If it does exist and contains a path, is the path...

Hi,

I use FoxPro 6 and I have a problem with FoxPro Date Format.
When I run the sql query in coldfusion language, I retreive this error message:

ODBC Error Code = 22005 (Error in assignment)

[Microsoft][ODBC Visual FoxPro Driver]Data...

I just started supporting a multi-user DOS Foxpro 2.6 application that is both mission critical and experiencing some problems with frequent ntvdm crashes (details below).
The application (standalone extended exe) is stored on the Z: drive which...

I needed to add a column to an existing table thru some SQL and that seems to work just fine.
Here is how I added the column:

    Set updateConn = New ADODB.Connection
    updateConn.ConnectionString =   "Provider=vfpoledb;" & _
          ...

In foxpro 2.6 dos , how to convert charactor to numeric and numeric to charactor.

Hi, I have not worked with Foxpro for a while and I am having problems. I am using Foxpro 6.0 and need a simple soluion.
Open 3 free tables:
janfebtotal.dbf
chkregister.dbf
checkdiff.dbf
   Here is what I need:
Open chkregister, get first...

I am using an ActiveX control within my application.  It work fine on my development PC in develop mode and runtime mode (EXE).  However, I am getting the error with a question mark:
 OLE error code 0x80040154 Unknown COM status code.  OLE...

I have sucessfully been using a command line to import data from an Excel worksheet(tab) and modify that data inside Foxpro V5. Now, the Excel Spreadsheet has multiple worksheets that I need to import. This is an automated program with no human...

I receive the following error when loading a Foxpro app..
"OLE error code 0x80040154: Class not registered. Class containing OLE object is being ignored. Record number 12"

Any idea which object needs to be registered?
Or any other possible...

I'm stumped by the following situation:

As seen in the code attached, I'm trying to populate a combo box with an array. The behavior that I am seeing is that I can verify the contents of the array, the combo box has a drop down with the...

Hi VFP experts,

I received a dll with a conversion function, that I need to call from Visual Foxpro 9.  This dll has been created using .NET

I cannot register this dll using regsvr32, and I cannot add this dll as an ActiveX control in VFP9...

Hello Experts:
I support an inherited VFP 8.0 system.  I don't know VFP. (Very limited experience with it.)
The users received this error yesterday:
Uniqueness of Index <index field name> is violated on <table name>
I went through EE's...

Hello,

I have used the MS Date and time picker control 6.0 (SP6) in one of my forms. In the property of this control, under OLE class is shows 'MSCOMCTL2.DtPicker.  
Strangely, when I search for the MSCOMCTL2.OCX on my computer, I cannot find...

Beginning the painful process of migrating a longstanding network app from XP to Win 7 running on a novell network

Have a small net with a dozen workstations on it all happily running XPSP3 and sharing the VFP data on a novell net.
...

1. I would like to know the advantanges and disadvanteges in Visual foxpro compare to other DBMS

I am creating a form that during the init event checks for parameter and based on that information is to continue of simply close.
The code works - however the form will NOT close without intervention form the user.
Snippet is attached.
How do...

I received this error on a Visual Foxpro 9 installation on Windows 7.  I found the update and fixed the problem, but why did this show up?  I've installed VFP 9 in the past without this error (Windows XP, Vista).  What does it affect?  Does it...

Hi all,

do you have any experiences with such tools ? So far I am looking at:

Abri Technologies Recover Utility (http://www.abri.com/recover.html)
dSalvage (http://www.hallogram.com/dsalvge/memofile.html)
FoxFix 5.1...

Hello Again Everyone,

It seems that I closed out my previous question a bit prematurely.  I thought for sure that installing 32bit SQL Server would solve the problem, but that doesn't look to be the case.  After completely uninstalling SQL...

I'm running a DOS command from within the PRG. I get the following problem:

"Program to big to fit in memory"

How can I resolve this problem or How can I run DOS Command without getting this error?

Thanks!

I have a VFP-9 application on a network of about 10 users that uses a Word Application object to perform a mail merge, update a mail-merge document, print it and save it to a NEW document. The users select a master mail-merge document from a...

My problem is i am new to foxpro, i am unable to create a grid according to my liking. I want a grid, which has 5 columns, the first column should contain a combox box, which has all the codes of the customers, and according this value, all the...

Is there an SQL string concatenation operator (or function) in Foxpro?

E.g. SELECT x + y FROM mytable;

Thank you

...Jelle

I am migrating one of my systems that loads data from foxpro tables into SQL Server.  We are moving the SSIS package and databases from a 32-bit server to 64-bit with SQL Server 2008 R2 Enterprise.  

It seems the smallest things can be the...

Hi all,

I am trying to modify some Report FRX files to change some fonts and easy stuff, but do I have to chage the FRT files as well? I know how to edit the FRX in FoxPro but not the FRT...

Thanks for your time

Hi

We have a customer who use both Epson FX-880 and FX-890 printers for producing carbon copy delivery notes and dispatch notes.

Recently we have upgraded the systems from Windows98 to Windows 7 and after this we cannot get the Dot Matrix...

I have established a working connection using the ODBC 3.15 driver between VFP 9 and a MySQL db, both residing on my machine.
Now that I have the connection what I need are a few specific examples to help me actually make use of the connection....

We have an old accounting system runs on DOS it is also used to estimating with blueprints. It was written in FOX Pro 2.6.

With Windows 7 64 Bit we need to run a virtual machine we are using VMware Workstation 8. We would like to do a full...

I added a checkbox to a VFP 8 grid in column.  It shows on all the rows, clicks and saves the result in my logical field. That works fine.  Problem is that I want to use the click method of the checkbox to run a procedure, but you can't update...

When I try to open a VFP table I get a message telling me that the the dbf has become corrupted. The table will need to be repaired before using again. How do I repair the table - any help will be much appreciated. Thanks.

I've checked the EE database on this, none of the solutoins has fixed the problem.  I've tried:
1) Using the Setup wizard to build an install set of disks (WEBSETUP)
2) Copying all VFP*.DLL and VFP*.EXE files to both the \Windows\system,...

Hi Experts!

I have many applications in which its back-end is FoxPro.  And of course, I have to maintain all these applications.  Most of the cases, problems are encountered especially after power failure.  So, I have to reindex specific table...

Can anyone tell me if it is viable to use a MySQL or PostGre database engine with a Visual Foxpro front end application?

I have some simple batch scripts that I need to call from Visual FoxPro 7.  The scripts run on the server when executed by explorer just fine.  I have them called from FoxPro with a macro using the RUN command, I can briefly see the cmd windows...

Dear Experts,
Our company developed more than 10 different applications for our business in vfp, this in the last two decades.
They work just fine and are really usefull to our business. We understant its too late and VFP is already out of the...

I'm trying to execute this SELECT clause:
SELECT RECNO('table_a') FROM table_a ta, table_b tb WHERE ta.field1=tb.field2
But the result is a LONG list of 1's. If a just use RECNO without a parameter:
SELECT RECNO() FROM table_a ta, table_b tb...

Hi - I am trying to use a select statement to select where empty(blank) memo fields. I am using vfp 8.0 with a sql server backend. so using the empty() function with the foxpro backend works but doesn't with sql server. Any help for selecting...

I am a VFP developer of over 10 years. I own a small software company that develops small/medium
applications.
I have tried many many times without success to make "SQL server" & VFP work together..
Whenever I try , first of all I get lost at...

I have a VFP8.0 build prg to executable which is deployed through the InstallShield Express application.  This program installs and runs fine on mahines which were previously installed with other VFP executables.  All machines are running on...

Created an installshield setup.exe with the vfp9 runtime option selected and the merge module default destination. The runtime files are installed in the default destination directory (\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\VFP) and they're...

Hey guys,

We have an accounting package that is written in Visual Foxpro - there are some templates in one of the folders. Each template has a .frx and .frt file.

The company want a stupid amount of money to make the smallest changes to...

For reasons which I wont explain here, I am storing printer images to file and putting them into a FoxPro memo.  Obviously passing through a printer driver means the resultant file has a lot of control codes.

In FoxPro for Windows, I can cut...

I have previously connected to a web service successfully using the following method to connect and initialise the web service and then access one of the methods.

Where I've specified 'url' below I mean the actual URL I'm going to.
...

Hi experts,
I would like to convert XML into .dbf table (visual foxpro format). Here is XML (quite long) :

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
- <IPDRDoc xmlns="http://www.ipdr.org/namespaces/ipdr"...

Hi --

I'm hoping to find a way, using vfp5.0, to open and display a .bmp image in a form; to edit the image (i.e., cut/crop/resize), then save the image to a file for printing on a report.

I see possibilities when reading documentation...

I am calling a few CMD Line programs from a FoxPro routine.

I need a way to capture the %errorlevel% that is returned from the executed CMD Line program and use this information in the FOxPro program.

Can anyone tell me how to do this?
...

help me.. i got foxpro file, and i wanna convert it into foxpro dbf. how can i do that?

I currently have stored procedures running in SQL2K on a Win2K3R2 that gather data from our over 1500 free-table Foxpro databases. The stored procedures use MSDASQL and the VFP ODBC driver. This has been working well since at least 2005. I am now...

We are running a VFP 9.0 SP2 application on a virtual terminal server (VMware running Windows 2008 Standard R2 64 bit) with Xbase data stored on second virtual server (VMware Windows 2008 SBS SP2 64 bit).  The data stored on that server is...

Dear Experts,

I was searching on Internet on Encrypt DBF files and I found the following article:


http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb%3Ben-us%3B115476

My question:

Do you have any of these books? Do you have any script...

Hey all,

I need help in a process to transfer a Visual FoxPro Database to a MySQL database.  Currently, I have a Visual FoxPro DB that was created many years ago.  Now I need to convert that FoxPro DB into a MySQL DB.

Thank you!

When I open some of the forms in the project and make a change in the form designer and attempt to save changes I get the error message:

Memo file c:\oe6\forms\formname.sct is missing or invalid.

I click OK to return to the designer. I...

Hello,
This might be a very basic question but foxpro is a bit alien to me at the moment. It breaks down like this.
1. VFP database located on one networked PC.
2. Other clients can connect to DB only one at a time. If one user is in the DB...

Dear all

How to export the VFP report to PDF version without a PDF writer?
or i want to write VFP programming to export VFP report to PDF
Thank you

newbaby

I have an accounting application with dbf files. I used to run several reports on these files using Crystal X by using the VFP odbc driver. The data and Crystal were on a windows sbs server 2003. Recently we have chnaged over to windows 2008 R2....

I am attempting to make a connection to a foxpro table using the Visual FoxPro OLE DB Provider.

Below is the code I am using to connect to the table, but it poops out on the Connection.Open() and gives me a "Feature is not available" error....

I know how to compile a foxpro program to a .exe that runs fine from my computer that I created it on. I cannot however get it to open from any other computer, I get 'Cannot locate the microsoft visual foxpro library' when trying to open the .exe...

here is a good one:
I current have a Non-modal form as my top level form in which I call various MOdla forms to process and or view data.
The minimize and maximize buttons are set to .T. on the top form and not prsent on the Modal form.
I have...

Hi
we are using VFP7, windows 2000, P4 1.60 GHZ,512 ram, 13 G free Hard Disk, server 2003
we are running both VFP and Office 2000 from the local drive and the .dbf file is on the server.

The problem is---- Program Error OLE IDispatch...

I am programming using Foxpro for DOS and printing reports on Epson LQ 1150 Dot matrix Printer

I need to set the Font and character size i.e. 15 cpi , 17 cpi etc. at Runtime.
Where can I get a list of commands to do the same. i.e. the...

Can anyone tell me the arguments to the following command?

rundll32.exe c:\winnt\system32\mshtml.dll,PrintHTML

I want to enable landscape printing and to get rid of the print dialog that pops up


Thanks

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I have a report FRX file that I have set the paper
size using the report designer at 8x6 in. My problem is that the standard tractor paper length is 11 in. I want the report to print eactly 1/2 the page, that is 5.5 in and stop there.
...

I am new Foxpro User. I would like to know how to use VFP8 as an front-end or Client and MySQL or PostgreSQL as an back end. I do not know how to config or set both VFP and MySQL or PostgreSQL for the above application. MySQL or PostgreSQL run on...

Hi,

So this question isn't *exactly* foxpro related, but Clipper is in the same family of languages.  So the current situation is that our client has lost the source code for an ancient Clipper program.  They need to make legislative driven...

Below is a question and reply from BullZip .ocm . . .

Hi Michael,

Sorry. One setting one call. If you want to set multiple settings in a more elegant way then you can use the API.

Regards,
Jacob...

i need a foxpro decompiler(for .app files) i need a full and free version plz help me out

Deadly waiting......

Experts,

The program codes below has an output of graphing data using "msgraph.chart" to VFP report and the default is graph style is bar chart. How can I change it to other style like pie chart or etc?

*=============
#DEFINE CRLF      ...

Hello experts,

I'm looking for a add on component for Foxpro that will allow me to draw simple drawings.
Any ideas?

Thanks

Hi all,

we've got a windows 2003 (R2) terminal server (server A) who runs a foxpro application on another server (microsoft windows server 2003 - server B).
Some users make a direct connection to server A to run the application and they don't...

In our programs, we often use the export feature to Excel, as follows:

w_filename = Putfile( "Save As ...", " ", " xls " )

copy to (w_filename) type xls

Now we're having trouble with Excel 2007 and the extension xlsx.

In the above...

where have foxpro2.6 (dos) for free download?

Does anyone know how to export a table to a DBF?  I have an ssis package but cannot figure out the options to choose when exporting...even when using the export wizard. Thanks.

How do I copy and paste an array formula in excel?

When I scroll upwards in a Grid the scrolling stops at the first record and do not continue showing a white space above the first record. However when I scroll downwards the scrolling continue beyond the last record showing a white space below...

I want to look for letters in a string of numbers.

Like in VB you can use a function called IsNumeric(string) to tell you if TRUE or FALSE for all numeric or not.

Is there a similar function in FoxPro.

Example:

If...

Dear All
How can I convert a project that was developed under Microsoft Visual Foxpro  into  Visual Basic ?
Is there any 3rd party ?
I found this
http://www.aims-co.com/VFP2VB_form/Home.htm

If there is anyone use this , how try will work...

I try to update a logic field to .T. value. But I don't know why it always shows "command contains unrecognized phrase or keyword" I am a beginner in VFP, could you guys help me out. I attach the code and printscreen of the error message.
...

In Foxpro For Windows , Can We Able To Convert .FXP Files Back To .PRG files?

I have a vfoxpro9 application that works fine in XP but one of the necessary functions fails in Windows 7 X64

In the setup I use the code:
DECLARE INTEGER ShellExecute IN Shell32.dll integer, string, string, string, string, integer

later I...

I have a MacIntosh FoxPro 2.5 database that I designed and have been using at my company. Would like to upgrade to Visual FoxPro 3.0 for MacIntosh but can't find it for sale anywhere. Also Microsoft is eliminating any FoxPro products for the Mac...

Hi All,

I have modified a visual foxpro application using VFP 9 SP2.
I have compiled the app into an exe file. This file uses an ini file to locate a database. On my development PC the system is working perfectly.

For a PC without VFP...

In a command prompt I am running this line:  

C:\Windows\System32> regsvr32 C:\Windows\System32\ImageViewer2.OCX

I get the following error:

RegSvr32
The Module "C:\Windows\System32\ImageViewer2.OCX" failed to load.
Make sure the binary...

From where can i download foxpro distribution kit for free?

Hi,

I'm still trying to fix a FoxPro 2.5 DOS database. I'm having problems after I zap client and employee dbf files. The program seems to hang up, rather then let me start fresh and input new data. Do I need to edit the companion CDX files as...