1) Open the Project that you want to create the table to.
2) On the Project Manager, click on the Data tab.
3) choose Free Tables and then click New.
4) You are given the option to use Table Wizard or New Table. For this time, click on the New table to design the table with Table Designer.
5) You will be prompted with a file name. Enter a name for your table. For this time, use cust.dbf.
6) Visual Foxpro will open up a Table Designer. Please note that there are 3 tabs in the Table Designer: Fields, Indexes and Table.
7) Enter field information at the Fields tab as below:
Please note that there is a checkmark in the Null column for fields name2, address2 and phoneno. This will set these 3 fields to allow Null value. If the Null field is not checked, Foxpro will throw an error when you try to insert a new record to the table without supplying a value to the fields. But before you can make the system check for null value use must issue the SET NULL ON command.
8) Click on the OK button to create the table.
9) You will be prompted to enter data. Click No to close the table.
OK. YOu have created a Free Table with Visual Foxpro 6.0. You can see this under the Free Table in the Project Manager.
