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 FOXU19.ZIP on many BBSes and SimTel mirrors. EMS has also made a list of FoxPro tool producers, with addresses, phone, fax, 800, web, email, etc. information.

The following are counts of Public Domain, Shareware and free products in the FoxPro Utility Library.

• App. Launch - 1
• Applic. Generator - 42
• Applications - 19
• Arrays - 11
• ASM Function - 41
• AT Technotes - 50
• Backup - 7
• Barcode - 9
• Benchmarking - 3
• Browse - 45
• Business Datafiles - 1
• Calendar - 32
• Clock - 3
• Clone - 18
• Code Compressor - 7
• CodeBase Patch - 15
• Color Selection - 25
• Command Editor - 5
• Communication - 51
• Compiler - 2
• Compiler Extension - 3
• Converter - 61
• Cursor Control - 7
• Custom Controls - 1
• Data Compression - 12
• Data Dictionary - 20
• Dates - 43
• dBASE II - 5
• DBF Viewer - 14
• dBIV Control Ctr. - 4
• Debugger - 25
• Dialog Box - 10
• Directory/Disk - 52
• Documentor - 78
• Duplicates - 13
• Editor - 13
• Editor Support - 24
• Emerald Bay - 5
• Error Handler - 20
• Faster - 16
• Financial - 17
• Force Library - 8
• Force Support - 26
• Form to PRG - 2
• Forms - 1
• Fox Library - 6
• Fox Template - 2
• FoxPro Library - 89
• FoxPro Objects - 1
• Function Key - 3
• Game - 8
• Genifer Template - 2
• GenScrn - 6
• Graphics - 30
• GSX Driver - 9
• Handles - 6
• Help - 18
• Indexing - 39
• Information - 74
• Installation - 4
• Interface - 40
• Internationalize - 2
• Key Control - 10
• Key Status - 12
• LAN/Multiuser - 37
• Lister - 7
• Mail Merge - 19
• Make - 16
• Mathematics - 24
• MEM File - 5
• Memo Manager - 26
• Menu - 37
• Misc. - 215
• Mouse - 17
• MS-Technote - 16
• MS-Windows - 19
• Nested Reads - 2
• Non-PC Use - 4
• Patch - 88
• Pick List - 22
• Printer Control - 69
• Printer Status - 10
• Procedure Mgr. - 7
• Progress Meter - 11
• Query Shell - 19
• Query Window - 1
• Recursion - 1
• Reduced Memory - 13
• Repair - 46
• Reporting - 49
• Ruler - 1
• RunTimeInterpretor - 1
• Screen Control - 74
• Screen Generator - 14
• Searcher - 18
• Security - 41
• Sound - 13
• Soundex - 6
• Spell Check - 1
• Spreadsheet - 1
• SQL - 15
• States & Zipcodes - 12
• Statistics - 5
• String Function - 43
• Structure - 63
• Syntax Help - 42
• Tabulation - 9
• Timer - 12
• ToolBar - 3
• Toolbar Class - 1
• Translate - 13
• Translator - 2
• Tutorial - 1
• UI Template - 17
• Un/Runtime - 2
• Validation - 11
• Word Processor - 3
• Xbase Standards - 2

Total PD/Shareware files in library: 2434
Total 1.44MB disks in Library: 84
Total bytes in library: 131975888