Article ID: 248116
Article Last Modified on 7/13/2004
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft Visual Studio 6.0 Service Pack 3
- Microsoft Visual FoxPro 6.0 Professional Edition
This article was previously published under Q248116
SUMMARY
Visual Studio 6.0 Service Pack 3 added the Session Class to Visual FoxPro. This class allows you to create a private data session without the use of a form. The benefit to this is that it allows you to create a lightweight (in terms of resource usage) custom object with encapsulated data. You previously would have needed a form, with all its associated overhead, or an empty formset to do this.
One of the best places to use this is in multithreaded DLLs (also added in Service Pack 3) since resource usage is at a premium in most cases where you would be using them.
MORE INFORMATION
An example of how to use this new class follows.
DEFINE CLASS myPrivateDSClass AS session
PROCEDURE UseTable
*!* By using the table inside a method of the session object,
*!* you are working in the object's DataSession.
LPARAMETER tcTable
IF NOT USED(tcTable)
USE (tcTable) IN 0
ENDif
ENDproc
PROCEDURE Destroy
CLOSE DATA ALL
ENDproc
To see this class in action, save the above code into MyDS.prg, and then run the following code:
CREATE TABLE myDSTest (cTest C(10))
USE DBF() SHARED
*!* CREATE TABLE makes an exclusively-used table. USE DBF() SHARED is
*!* a good method for not having to remember the path to the table.
FOR i = 1 TO 10
INSERT INTO myDSTest ;
VALUES (TRANSFORM(i))
ENDfor
oDS = NEWOBJECT("myPrivateDSClass", "MyDS.prg")
*!* NEWOBJECT allows you to specify a class in a program or other
*!* location without the use of SET CLASSLIB TO ... ADDITIVE.
oDS.UseTable("myDSTest")
SET
WAIT WINDOW "Suspending... RESUME to remove Session Object." NOWAIT
*!* The following line is needed to keep oDS in scope, so you can
*!* see the datasession.
SUSPEND
SET opens the Data Session window. If you switch between the default data session and MyPrivateDS, you see myDSTest open in both, with the record pointer at the top of one and the bottom of the other.
REFERENCES
For more information, see the Session Object documentation in the MSDN Visual FoxPro documentation, or "Additional Language Elements" in the Vfpsp3.chm file which ships with Visual Studio 6.0 Service Pack 3.
(c) Microsoft Corporation 1999, All Rights Reserved. Contributions by Garrett Fitzgerald, Microsoft Corporation.
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