Microsoft Office Automation with Visual FoxPro

Chapter 9 - Excel s Graphing Engine

Since FoxPro lacks native graphing capabilities, Excel can step in and provide a terrific graphing engine.

Much has been written about using Microsoft Graph in VFP applications. Excel s graphing engine is based on Microsoft Graph, but it has one perk that Graph lacks: documentation. (Actually, almost any Excel graphing code also works in Graph, but this is one of those undocumented secrets you can t count on.) What you can t find out in the printed or on-line documentation and Help, you can usually find out by recording a macro.

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