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I have found the following whitepapers and articles to be incredibly helpful. If you have a whitepaper or article that you would like me to republish or link to here, please contact me (tod at grengama dot com). I would be happy to review it and place it on Tod means Fox.

• Visual FoxPro Whitepapers
• Business Intelligence Whitepapers
• Miscellaneous Whitepapers

By the way, a whitepaper is defined via wikiality as: “…an authoritative report. White papers are used to educate customers, collect leads for a company or help people make decisions. They can also be a government report outlining policy.” (source).

Visual FoxPro Whitepapers

• A Survey of VFP’s International Features
  Steven Black Consulting
  Many Visual FoxPro commands have international nuances. This is fully documented in the INTL Toolkit. Below is the documentation on international issues for VFP commands. Keep these things in mind as you develop your international applications.
• Buffering and Locking in Visual FoxPro
  Andy Kramek
  It seems that working with data buffering in Visual FoxPro causes a lot of confusion. I believe that this is largely due to the rather confusing implementation of buffering, and the somewhat odd use of nomenclature (by conventional standards) associated with the topic.
• Hand Coding the Data Warehouse with VFP
  Tod McKenna
  This whitepaper makes the case for using Visual FoxPro as a hand-coding tool for developing data profiling, metadata, ETL, and other data warehousing applications. This, and the corresponding session material, was presented at FoxForward, 2007.
• How FoxPro works internally
  Christof Wollenhaupt
  An attempt to describe how FoxPro probably works internally and why some things are as strange as they are.
• Security in Visual FoxPro
  Christof Wollenhaupt
  Do you think your application and data are safe? After reading this article you might not be that sure anymore…
• Testing Visual FoxPro Applications
  Andrew MacNeill
  Here’s an article that was originally promised to FoxPro Advisor but they turned it down as it wasn’t FoxPro-enough. Enjoy…
• Visual FoxPro Structured Error Handling Matrix
  Randy Pearson and Cycla Corporation
  This site provides a reference for VFPs error handling strategies. Although not an article or whitepaper exactly, I’ve included it here because it is both informative and educational.

Business Intelligence Whitepapers

• 7 Simple Rules For Successful Real-Time Business Intelligence Implementation
  Jaymin Patel
  Real-time data marts and business intelligence solutions are no longer a novelty or luxury. These solutions are not in their infancy stage.
• Data Analysis
  Larissa T. Moss
  This article is excerpted from the book Business Intelligence Roadmap: The Complete Lifecycle for Decision Support Applications (Addison-Wesley, 2003). Copyright Larissa T. Moss, Shaku Atre, Addison-Wesley.
• Master Data Management: Getting the Most from an MDM Initiative
  Matthew J. Beyer
  Without a doubt, master data management can help a company do business much more efficiently. Here’s an introductory article.
• Ten Mistakes to Avoid When Estimating ROI for Business Intelligence
  Evan Levy
  The most common missteps managers make when financially justifying their business intelligence (BI) and data warehouse programs.

Miscellaneous Whitepapers

• How Agile Development Can Lead to Better Results and Technology-Business Alignment
  Thomas Wailgum
  Studies show agile development works, and yet few companies follow its principles. Read this article to learn how your organization can manage the agile way.