Optimizing Your System

Visual FoxPro is designed to be a fast relational database development system. However, applications you create with Visual FoxPro can have varying requirements and purposes. Therefore, you might want to optimize the operating system, Visual FoxPro, or your application for maximum performance.

In This Section

• Optimizing the Operating Environment
  Describes how to optimize computer hardware and and operating environment for running Visual FoxPro.

• Optimizing Visual FoxPro Startup Speed
  Describes how to optimize startup and operating speed in Visual FoxPro.

• Optimizing Visual FoxPro in a Multiuser Environment
  Describes how to improve performance when running Visual FoxPro in a multiuser environment.

Related Sections

• Customizing the Visual FoxPro Environment
  Provides information about setting environment options, accessibility features, and configuration.

• Getting Started with Visual FoxPro
  Discusses how to get started, including information about installing, upgrading, and customizing Visual FoxPro to create state-of-the-art enterprise database solutions.

• What's New in Visual FoxPro
  Lists the new features and enhancements made to this version of Microsoft Visual FoxPro.

• Using Visual FoxPro
  Provides links to information on Visual FoxPro programming features that are designed to improve developer productivity, including Access and Assign methods, support for more graphic file formats, and language to simplify programming tasks.

• Developing Visual FoxPro Applications
  Includes conceptual information about how to develop Visual FoxPro applications, instructions for creating databases and the user interface, and other tasks needed to create Visual FoxPro applications.

• Programming in Visual FoxPro
  Discusses how to access the full power of Visual FoxPro by creating applications. Understanding object-oriented programming techniques and the event-driven model can maximize your programming productivity.