Optimizing Your System

Visual FoxPro is designed to be the fastest relational database development system. Applications you create with Visual FoxPro can have widely varying requirements and purposes. Because of this variety, you might want to optimize the operating system, Visual FoxPro, or your application for maximum performance.

In This Section

• Configuring the Operating Environment
  An effective way to optimize Visual FoxPro performance is to get the best use of your computer's hardware and environment.
• Optimizing Visual FoxPro Startup Speed
  Though Visual FoxPro is always fast, you can optimize the startup and operating speed. This section describes enhancing Visual FoxPro performance by managing startup speed and optimizing SET commands.
• Optimization of Visual FoxPro in a Multiuser Environment
  When you run Visual FoxPro in a multiuser environment, you can improve performance by handling temporary files effectively and by controlling the way files are shared.

Related Sections

• Getting Started with Visual FoxPro
  Microsoft Visual FoxPro is the object-oriented database management system that makes it possible for you to create state-of-the-art enterprise database solutions.
• What's New in Visual FoxPro
  Listed here are the new features and enhancements made to this version of Microsoft Visual FoxPro.
• Using Visual FoxPro
  Visual FoxPro programming features 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
  This section 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
  Visual FoxPro is a powerful interactive data management tool, but you also can 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.