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Flexibility to Build All Types of Database Solutions

Create .NET compatible solutions with hierarchical XML and XML Web services *

Exchange data with SQL Server through enhanced SQL language capabilities and newly supported data types *

Enhance your user interfaces with dockable user forms, auto-anchoring of controls, and improved image support *

Personalize the Properties Window with your favorite properties, custom editors, fonts, and color settings *

Build and deploy stand-alone and remote applications for Windows based Tablet PCs *

Create and access COM components and XML Web Services compatible with Microsoft .NET technology *

Visual FoxPro 9.0 allows you to build end-to-end solutions, from data entry forms to complex report outputs *

Reporting System Features

Extensible new output architecture provides precision control of report data output and formatting *

Multiple detail band support for data with multiple one-to-many relationships *

Output reports supported include in XML, HTML, image formats, and customizable multi-page print preview window *

Customizable print preview window with improved display quality and multiple page support *

New ReportListener class provides access to report generation and rendering events at runtime *

Flexible report chaining allows for more complex print jobs *

Powerful design-time hooks with customizable builders *

Backward compatible with existing Visual FoxPro reports *

Data-Handling and Interoperability

New Data Types - Varchar, Varbinary, and Blob types allow for improved interoperability with SQL Server *

Extended SQL Enhancements – more capabilities with SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE and DELETE statements *

CAST() – new function allows you to convert between different data types *

New Binary Index – support for new index type to improve performance using Deleted tag *

XMLAdapter – improved nested hierarchical XML and XSD schema support *

Smart Client User Interface Features

Dockable Forms – allow for professional functioning Windows applications *

Anchoring – lets you control movement of controls on a form as the form is resized *

Buttons – improved control over position of image on a button with text alignment *

Checkboxes – new word wrap support for checkbox captions *

Labels – support for rotating text for label captions *

Shapes and Lines – ability to create polygons and Bezier curves *

Lists and Combos – use collections as databinding row source *

Images – bind to non file-based pictures *

Extensible Developer Productivity

Property Sheet – support for new font and color display options, extended characters and long expressions *

Member Data Extensibility – ability to specify custom property editors and favorites *

Background Compile – see valid and invalid syntax as you type command lines *

Task Pane – new and improved task panes such as the Data Explorer pane *

Extended System Capabilities – no limits for arrays, procedure size, and nesting levels *

String Functions – powerful new enhancements for working with strings *

ICASE() – new inline function similar to DO CASE statement *

International – greater support for use of FontCharSets in applications *