FoxPro

What Does FoxPro Mean?

FoxPro is a relational database procedural programming language. Though it was initially developed by Fox Software in 1984, the company later merged with Microsoft in 1992. FoxPro was integrated as part of Microsoft’s Visual Studio.

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The root of VFP is FoxBASE, which was developed for DOS by Fox Software. VFP then succeeded as one of the first 32-bit products for Windows 95.

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Margaret Rouse

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Margaret is an award-winning writer and educator known for her ability to explain complex technical topics to a non-technical business audience. Over the past twenty years, her IT definitions have been published by Que in an encyclopedia of technology terms and cited in articles in the New York Times, Time Magazine, USA Today, ZDNet, PC Magazine, and Discovery Magazine. She joined Techopedia in 2011. Margaret’s idea of a fun day is to help IT and business professionals to learn to speak each other’s highly specialized languages.

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