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What's New in Visual FoxPro 8.0
Posted: May 21st, 2008, 10:57am CEST

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What’s most important when deciding what to include in a new release? Is it bug fixes? Or programming productivity features? Or end-user functionality that will help the developer sell upgrades to applications to their customer and user base? Visual FoxPro 8.0 combines the best of all worlds. So what’s new in Visual FoxPro 8.0? Lots of things! New base classes, including CursorAdapter, Collection, and XMLAdapter. Powerful new tools, including the Toolbox, Task Pane Manager, and Code References. Structured error handling featuring the new TRY…CATCH…ENDTRY structure. Improvements in the database engine, including SQL enhancements, a View Designer that actually works, and an updated OLE DB provider. The list goes on and on. What’s New in Visual FoxPro 8 organizes the new features into functional categories and shows you how and why to use each of them. No matter what your area of interest, there’s a lot of new stuff in the latest to appear from the Fox labs in Redmond—and you won’t find a better, more concise guide of what’s new, and how to use it, than in this compendium put together by two of the finest Fox developers on the planet.

About the Authors

Tamar E. Granor, Ph.D., is the owner of Tomorrow’s Solutions, LLC. She has developed and enhanced numerous FoxPro and Visual FoxPro applications for businesses and other organizations. She currently focuses on working with other developers through consulting and subcontracting. Tamar served as Editor of FoxPro Advisor magazine from 1994 to 2000. She is currently the magazine’s Technical Editor and co-author of the popular “Advisor Answers” column.

Tamar is co-author of the Hacker’s Guide To Visual FoxPro 7.0 (and its award-winning predecessor), What’s New in Visual FoxPro 7.0 and Microsoft Office Automation with Visual FoxPro. She is the Technical Editor of Visual FoxPro Certification Exams Study Guide (all from Hentzenwerke Publishing).

Doug Hennig is a partner with Stonefield Systems Group Inc. He is the author of the award-winning Stonefield Database Toolkit (SDT), the award-winning Stonefield Query, and the CursorAdapter and DataEnvironment builders that come with Microsoft Visual FoxPro 8. Doug is co-author of The Hacker’s Guide to Visual FoxPro 7.0 and What’s New in visual FoxPro 7.0. He was the technical editor of The Hacker’s Guide to Visual FoxPro 6.0 and The Fundamentals (all from Hentzenwerke Publishing). Doug writes the monthly “Reusable Tools” column in FoxTalk. He has spoken at ever Microsoft FoxPro Developers Conference (DevCon) since 1997 and at user groups and developer conferences all over North America.

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In this second edition of the indispensable SAS for Forecasting Time Series, Brocklebank and Dickey show you how SAS performs univariate and multivariate time series analysis. Taking a tutorial approach, the authors focus on the procedures that most effectively bring results: the advanced procedures ARIMA, SPECTRA, STATESPACE, and VARMAX. They demonstrate the interrelationship of SAS/ETS procedures with a discussion of how the choice of a procedure depends on the data to be analyzed and the results desired. With this book, you will learn to model and forecast simple autoregressive (AR) processes using PROC ARIMA, and you will learn to fit autoregressive and vector ARMA processes using the STATESPACE and VARMAX procedures. Other topics covered include detecting sinusoidal components in time series models, performing bivariate cross-spectral analysis, and comparing these frequency-based results with the time domain transfer function methodology. New and updated examples in the second edition include retail sales with seasonality, ARCH models for stock prices with changing volatility, vector autoregression and cointegration models, intervention analysis for product recall data, expanded discussion of unit root tests and nonstationarity, and expanded discussion of frequency domain analysis and cycles in data.

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A web mashup is a new type of web application that uses data and services from one or more external sources to build entirely new and different web applications. Web mashups usually mash up data and services that are available on the Internet—freely, commercially, or through other partnership agreements. The external sources that a mashup uses are known as mashup APIs.

This book shows you how to write web mashups using Ruby on Rails—the new web application development framework. The book has seven real-world projects—the format of each project is similar, with a statement of the project, discussion of the main protocols involved, an overview of the API, and then complete code for building the project. You will be led methodically through concrete steps to build the mashup, with asides to explain the theory behind the code.