FoxPro Utility Library
The FoxPro Utility Library is a collection of all freely distributable
(Public Domain, freeware, shareware, contribution requested, demo
code, etc.) source code, utilities, applications, etc. for FoxPro
developers. The collection is available on CD-ROM and (by special
order) 1.44MB diskettes. A directory database
accompanying the library is a dBASE compatible .DBF file with
DOS search program. The database also lists all existing commercial
products, for one stop shopping for all existing FoxPro tools.
The directory database and library are updated at least every
two months. Computer Language Magazine (in 1989, prior to being
renamed Software Development Magazine) said "quite possibly
the most useful tool for heavy developers... , Anyone who works
in dBASE or Fox ... should have a copy of the directory , any
programmer who doesn't want to reinvent the wheel should get the
library. This may be the most productive $100 you'll ever spend."
Since the time of the review, the library has grown by ten
times and improved even more. Ordering information.
A ZIPed text file listing all known Public Domain and Shareware
FoxPro products found on BBSes in the USA, organized by type with
release date and short description can be found as FOXUXX.ZIP
(where XX is the version number) on many BBSes and SimTel mirrors.
The following are counts of Public Domain, Shareware and free
products in the FoxPro Utility Library.
- App. Launch - 1
- Applic. Generator - 41
- Applications - 13
- Arrays - 11
- ASM Function - 41
- AT Technotes - 50
- Backup - 7
- Barcode - 9
- Benchmarking - 3
- Browse - 41
- Business Datafiles - 1
- Calendar - 24
- Clock - 3
- Clone - 18
- Code Compressor - 7
- CodeBase Patch - 15
- Color Selection - 24
- Command Editor - 5
- Communication - 47
- Compiler - 2
- Compiler Extension - 3
- Converter - 57
- Cursor Control - 7
- Custom Controls - 1
- Data Compression - 8
- Data Dictionary - 20
- Dates - 42
- dBASE II - 5
- DBF Viewer - 14
- dBIV Control Ctr. - 4
- Debugger - 24
- Dialog Box - 10
- Directory/Disk - 51
- Documentor - 76
- Duplicates - 13
- Editor - 11
- Editor Support - 23
- Emerald Bay - 5
- Error Handler - 16
- Faster - 16
- Financial - 17
- Force Library - 7
- Force Support - 26
- Form to PRG - 2
- Forms - 1
- Fox Library - 5
- Fox Template - 2
- FoxPro Library - 39
- FoxPro Objects - 1
- Function Key - 3
- Game - 8
- Genifer Template - 2
- GenScrn - 5
- Graphics - 29
- GSX Driver - 8
- Handles - 6
- Help - 16
- Indexing - 38
- Information - 62
- Installation - 4
- Interface - 37
- Internationalize - 2
- Key Control - 10
- Key Status - 12
- LAN/Multiuser - 35
- Lister - 6
- Mail Merge - 18
- Make - 14
- Mathematics - 23
- MEM File - 5
- Memo Manager - 26
- Menu - 37
- Misc. - 191
- Mouse - 17
- MS-Technote - 16
- MS-Windows - 19
- Nested Reads - 2
- Non-PC Use - 4
- Patch - 80
- Pick List - 22
- Printer Control - 67
- Printer Status - 9
- Procedure Mgr. - 7
- Progress Meter - 9
- Query Shell - 18
- Query Window - 1
- Recursion - 1
- Reduced Memory - 13
- Repair - 43
- Reporting - 48
- Ruler - 1
- RunTimeInterpretor - 1
- Screen Control - 73
- Screen Generator - 14
- Searcher - 17
- Security - 33
- Sound - 13
- Soundex - 6
- Spell Check - 1
- Spreadsheet - 1
- SQL - 13
- States & Zipcodes - 12
- Statistics - 5
- String Function - 42
- Structure - 61
- Syntax Help - 42
- Tabulation - 9
- Timer - 12
- ToolBar - 2
- Translate - 13
- Translator - 1
- Tutorial - 1
- UI Template - 17
- Un/Runtime - 1
- Validation - 11
- Word Processor - 3
- Xbase Standards - 2
Total PD/Shareware files in library: 2249
Total 1.44MB disks in Library: 73
Total bytes in library: 106907196