When you have designed your client/server application, you are ready to build and upsize a local prototype. A local prototype is a working model of your application using Microsoft Visual FoxPro tables, views, and databases to represent data that eventually will be accessed on a remote server. Use the upsizing wizards to move databases, tables, and views from your system to a remote Microsoft SQL Server server.

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Goals for Prototyping: When you use Microsoft Visual FoxPro to build a prototype of your application, you are leveraging the power of visual forms, wizards, builders, designers, and the Project Manager to quickly develop a working application.

How to: Build a Local Prototype of an Application: When you build a local prototype of your application, you might be starting from scratch, or you might be converting an existing Microsoft Visual FoxPro application to a client/server application.

Database Creation with Upsizing Wizards: The Visual FoxPro SQL Server Upsizing Wizard creates SQL Servers that duplicate, as much as possible, the functionality of a set of tables in a Microsoft Visual FoxPro database.

Related Sections

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.

Working with Data: Describes how to develop and work with databases and database objects, how to build queries and views, how to import and export data, how to manage data in multiuser environments, and how to access data using the OLE DB Provider.

Creating Applications: Discusses how to create Visual FoxPro application, which may include one or more databases, a main program that sets up the application's system environment, and a user interface comprised of forms, toolbars, and menus.

Creating Applications with the Application Framework: Explains how to create applications with the Application Framework using the Application Wizard and the Application builder.

Optimizing Client/Server Performance: Learn how you can fine-tune your application to gain maximum performance by increasing data throughput.

Creating International Applications: Describes how you can design and develop your Visual FoxPro applications so they are as effective internationally as domestically.