Visual FoxPro ships with over 20 wizards. Wizards are interactive programs that help you quickly accomplish common tasks such as creating forms, formatting reports, setting up queries, importing and upsizing data, graphing, creating mail merge output, generating pivot tables, creating crosstab reports and publishing in HTML format for the Web.
By answering questions or choosing options on the series of wizard screens, you are telling the wizard to build a file or perform a task based on your responses.
Most of the Wizards have several output options in the last page. These output options are often to files that can be bound into your application. For example, the new Web Publishing Wizard has an output script option which creates a program (.prg) file that dynamically generates an HTML page from FoxPro data. You can include this script file in your application and run it from a menu item, or button on a form.
You can start a wizard when you create a new file from within the Project Manager or when you choose New from the File menu. Simply choose the Wizard option when prompted. You can also start a wizard by selecting the Wizards submenu on the Tools menu.
Note that additional wizards are available at the Visual FoxPro web site at http://www.microsoft.com/vfoxpro.
| To | Use this wizard |
| Create a Visual FoxPro application | Application Wizard You can also use the Application Builder to include advance features in your application. Note: The Application Wizard (5.0) from Visual FoxPro 5.0 is also available for backward compatibility. |
| Import an object model from a Microsoft Visual Modeler (.mdl) file to Visual FoxPro | Code Generation Wizard |
| Create a cross-tab query | Cross-Tab Wizard |
| Create a database | Database Wizard |
| Format and produce text files from your code in projects and program files | Documenting Wizard |
| Create a form | Form Wizard |
| Create a graph | Graph Wizard |
| Import or append data | Import Wizard |
| Create mailing labels | Label Wizard |
| Create a view | Local View Wizard |
| Create a mail merge file | Mail Merge Wizard |
| Create a one-to-many form | One-To-Many Form Wizard |
| Create a one-to-many report | One-To-Many Report Wizard |
| Create an Oracle database that duplicates, as much as possible, the functionality of a Visual FoxPro database | Oracle Upsizing Wizard |
| Create a pivot table | PivotTable Wizard |
| Create a query | Query Wizard |
| Create a remote view | Remote View Wizard |
| Create a report | Report Wizard |
| Export Visual FoxPro classes to a Microsoft Visual Modeler object model file (.mdl) | Reverse Engineering Wizard |
| Create a custom wizard | Sample Wizard |
| Create distribution disks from the files in your distribution tree | Setup Wizard |
| Create a SQL Server database that duplicates, as much as possible, the functionality of a Visual FoxPro database | SQL Upsizing Wizard |
| Create a table | Table Wizard |
| Display data from a table or view in an HTML document | Web Publishing Wizard |
| Create a Web page that allows Web page visitors to search and retrieve records from your Visual FoxPro table | WWW Search Page Wizard |