Visual FoxPro原名FoxBase，是美国Fox Software公司推出的编程语言，主要用于数据库，在DOS上运行，与xBase系列兼容。FoxPro原来是FoxBase的加强版，最高版本曾出过2.6。之后，Fox Software被微软收购，加以发展，使其可以在Windows上运行16bit版本为FoxPro for Windows Ver 2.6，中文版为FoxPro for Windows 2.5b，之后32bit版本并且更名为Visual FoxPro。

Visual FoxPro 3.0一推出，就受到广大用户的欢迎。因为xBase类的语言，如dBase、Clipper、InterBase、Paradox等，当时还无法在Windows上运行，于是Visual FoxPro成为市场上的霸主。

FoxPro was a text-based procedurally oriented programming language and database management system (DBMS), and it is also an object-oriented programming language, originally published by Fox Software and later by Microsoft, for MS-DOS, Windows, Macintosh, and UNIX. The final published release of FoxPro was 2.6. Development continued under the Visual FoxPro label, which in turn was discontinued in 2007.