Where to find the FFC

When you install Visual FoxPro, the Foundation Classes are installed in the FFC subfolder under
the Visual FoxPro home folder. For VFP 9.0, they are located in C:\Program Files\Microsoft
Visual FoxPro 9\Ffc,1 assuming VFP was installed to the default location.
The FFC folder contains the thirty-nine visual class libraries (.vcx and .vct files) along with the
header (.h) files used by some of the foundation classes. A subfolder named Graphics holds the
bitmaps and other graphics files used by the FFC.
Some of the Foundation Classes also come with samples illustrating their use. The files for these
samples, most of which are forms, are located under the solution samples folder. For Visual
FoxPro 9.0, this is C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual FoxPro 9\Samples\Solutions\Ffc.

How to get the latest FFC

As of this writing there are two ways to get the latest version of the Foundation Classes: install
Visual FoxPro 9.0 SP2, or download FFC.zip from the VFPX website. As noted above, the
Foundation Classes are not part of the VFPX family of community projects, but they are available
for download from the VFPX website.

The only differences I found between the FFC files installed with VFP 9.0 SP2 and the FFC files
in FFC.zip from VFPX are that the _gdiplus, _reportlistener, and registry class libraries have a
newer date and time stamp in the download from VFPX. However, the individual classes within
these three class libraries differ only in a couple of insignificant ways from those installed with
SP2, so the two are functionally equivalent.

What’s new in SP2

VFP 9.0 SP2 introduced significant changes and enhancements to the Report Listener Foundation
Class (_reportlistener.vcx) and the FRX Cursor Foundation Class (_frxcursor.vcx) as compared

to those found in SP1. If you use these classes in your apps and want the latest and greatest, you
will want to explore the SP2 version.
Unfortunately, not all of the changes and enhancements to the Report Listener Foundation Classes
and the FRX Cursor Foundation Class are documented in the SP2 Help File. For information on
what’s new in SP2 in these classes, a very good place to start is Lisa Slater Nicholls’ blog post at
http://tinyurl.com/5wd49v.