ODBC DSN Class Downloads [June 29, 2009 21:38]Modified to now be a class, generously commented, that provides a wrapper for creating, modifying and removing User DSN programmatically using all VFP code. Two functions have been added for creating a connection using a DSN or a string. This is a PRG based class and is free [public domain].
DynaZip Class Downloads [June 29, 2009 21:36]Wrapper class for controlling all DynaZip operations. This class uses extensive use of _Access and _Assign methods, so VFP 6 is required. The class is heavily commented and is based on Chapter 5 of the DynaZip manual. Never has integrating DynaZip into your VFP apps been easier. This class works with the 32-bit versions of DynaZip v3 and DynaZip v4.
CursorAdapter VCX Builder for VFP 9 Downloads [June 29, 2009 21:35]This class is designed to connect to a DBC, Oracle or SQL Server, retrieve all tables in that database, then create a CursorAdapter subclass for each table. This class generates the code that is needed at runtime to populate the properties in each CA in order for VFP to auto-generate the Insert, Update, Delete SQL. You also have the option of using your own SQL code provided in one of the methods of each CA subclass just by setting the value of the lAutoGenerate property.
Southwest Fox 2009 Early-Bird Deadline News [June 29, 2009 14:58]Your opportunity to save big on registration for Southwest Fox ends soon. Super-saver registration offers $125 off the price of the conference, and gives you one free half-day pre-conference session, for total savings of $224. But hurry, because the super-saver offer expires on July 1.
Array Browser Downloads [June 29, 2009 09:17]This is a development tool that allows to view an array in the Browse window. Usefull in analyzing contents of the multi-row or multi-column arrays during development process.
Exploring eTechnologia’s .NET compiler for VFP User group meetings [June 27, 2009 18:19]Description to follow. This is just a sentence to pad out to 50 characters.
An Introduction to the Drupal CMS User group meetings [June 27, 2009 18:16]Drupal is a widely used web content management system written in PHP. It is fundamentally a CMS software framework whose main purpose is to make building and managing a content rich website accessible to the masses. There are many other systems out there that acheive this purpose, and gracefully. So why would we want to use drupal? Find out the answer to these questions and more, August 18th at 7pm. We'll discuss the big picture overview of just what drupal is and why it's good for making and...
Final report of DevCon Praha is now available News [June 27, 2009 13:22]Another year of the traditional DevCon event in Prague has ended. The organizers repeated the success from the last year by carefully mixing the Visual FoxPro and SQL server sessions, making it again a great event for everyone. Read more about it from the official coverage of the event.
Visual FoxPro DevCon 2009 report has started News [June 23, 2009 19:14]The Visual FoxPro DevCon 2009 conference in Prague is being held during these days. The official coverage is hosted, once again, on the Universal Thread. Jan Vít, and Karel Koliš are onsite to report on the event. The first version of the report covers the first day as well as 43 pictures.
West Wind Web Connection 5.43 released News [June 23, 2009 14:07]From West Wind Technologies: We've just released an update to West Wind Web Connection 5.43. This update is a maintenance release that fixes a few issues that have been reported and provides a handful of small improvements. You can download the latest version from the site.
C# SQL Parameters Code Generator Downloads [June 21, 2009 11:30]Provides a UI create the code for a collection or array of SqlParameters. This app allows you to log into MS SQL and select a database. A list is then populated with all the stored procedures in the database. After selecting a stored procedure you are given options to provide the property values for a SqlParameter. In addition, the option to place the SqlParameters instances into an ArrayList or array is provided. The code is copied to the clipboard.
EZNamespaceExtensionsMFC 2009 released News [June 20, 2009 12:01]Develop namespace extensions fast and painlessly with EZNamespaceExtensionsMFC. Adding Windows Explorer and File Open/Save dialog integration to document management or similar software is now easy using namespace extensions developed with EZNamespaceExtensionsMFC 2009. Concentrate on writing the functionality of the namespace extension and not worry about the hundred things that are necessary to integrate the namespace extension seamlessly into Windows Explorer and File Open/Save Dialogs. Docum...
Mig9. Version 9 of FPD to VFP project migration Downloads [June 20, 2009 10:33]20070905 - Though old this is the latest version with auxiliary files. Mig - Version 9. The objective is to create a better migrator than comes with VFP. Creates a fully OO VFP project starting from a FoxPro DOS 2.6 project. In this version data are kept in free tables. As a result, the migrated project runs better. Main improvements in version 9 are in report migration. Requires VFP9 and Codemine.
Exceed announces a major update for Xceed DataGrid for WPF Professional Edition News [June 18, 2009 16:55]Xceed is proud to announce a major update to Xceed DataGrid for WPF Professional Edition, as well as a new Standard Edition. There's also news on important updates to the Zip components. The datagrid is not only one of the most important controls used in many applications, but also one of the most complicated to build and therefore difficult to get right. Read the June 2009 Xceed newsletter for details.
Changing Colors and Styles of controls at run-time Downloads [June 18, 2009 09:59]This object, when dropped on a form, automatically sets the colors and other properties of all the controls on the form to those that match the same properties on the Style object. Set the properties value once on the Style control, and when the form is ran, then all the controls with the same property have the same value. The only exception are those control that have set the same property explicitly. Works in VFP 6.0 and greater. Version 1.00 has been enhanced with more properties and a St...
Add Silverlight - style presentations quickly with Solutions Schedule for COM News [June 18, 2009 09:19]DBI Technologies Inc. is pleased to announce the release of Solutions Schedule for COM (v9.0). This new release provides Microsoft Windows application developers with a complete asset management and multi resource scheduling program in a single component software solution. Solutions Schedule for COM incorporates the latest in User Interface (UI) presentations and design features. DBI's Scheduling component software is found in commercial enterprise software supporting healthcare to consumer pro...
Microsoft's Windows 7-to-XP downgrade plan a 'real mess,' says analyst News [June 16, 2009 19:51]From ComputerWorld: "As expected, Microsoft will let computer makers sell PCs with the aged Windows XP for six months after it releases Windows 7, a move that will confuse companies and make it tougher for them to manage their licensing, an analyst said today. A slide from a Microsoft PowerPoint presentation that Computerworld has seen shows that the company plans to cut off OEMs' XP downgrade rights six months after Windows 7 debuts, limiting computer makers' moves after that to offering Vista-...
Google considers request to boost privacy News [June 16, 2009 19:51]From CNet: "More than three dozen security and privacy advocates and researchers are asking Google to offer better data protection for users of Gmail and other Google apps and Google said on Tuesday that it is considering doing that, if it doesn't slow down the apps too much. You may not know this but you can set Gmail to encrypt your session data by default to protect it from being sniffed over the network."
Will touchscreen Windows 7 netbooks be hot or not? News [June 16, 2009 19:51]From ZDNet: "As I’ve noted here before, I am not among the true believers who are convinced that adding multi-touch support to Windows 7 PCs is going to spur sales. Yes, it might look cool to be able to touch a screen saver and see a simulated stream ripple. Or to use afinger to navigate a Virtual Earth globe/map. But the downside of fingerprints on my screen outweigh any benefits of touch applications I’ve seen or read about to date."
DBI Technologies releases Studio Controls for COM News [June 16, 2009 19:49]From DBI Tech: "DBI Technologies Inc., the development community’s award winning provider of interface design and scheduling component software is pleased to announce the release of Studio Controls for COM. This new release provides traditional application developers with an advancing set of interface design and appointment scheduling components. “There are so many commercial applications in the market place developed in traditional IDE’s, and in these economic times, many of these organization...
FileView ActiveX Control 2009 released. News [June 16, 2009 19:47]From SSWare: "FileView ActiveX Control 2009 brings a drop-in Windows Explorer-like file and folder browsing UI component to your application. It is a perfect replacement for the plain, inflexible, modal APIs which UI developers are currently limited to. It offers complete support for Thumbnail, Details and GroupView, AutoUpdate, dragdrop, icons, contextmenus, non-filesystem items, default key-handling, infotips and renaming. It features powerful behavior control and customization functionality t...
EZNamespaceExtensions.Net 2009 released News [June 16, 2009 19:45]From SSWare: "Add Windows Explorer and File Open/Save dialog integration to document management or similar software using namespace extensions developed with EZNamespaceExtensions.Net v2009. With EZNamespaceExtensions, a development team can concentrate on writing the functionality of the namespace extension and not worry about the hundred things that are necessary to integrate the namespace extension seamlessly into Windows Explorer and File Open/Save Dialogs."
European regulators, Opera weigh in on Microsoft's Windows 7 E plan News [June 16, 2009 19:38]From ZDNet: "At the end of the day Microsoft acknowledged its plan to ship a browser-less version of Windows 7 in the European Union to attempt to appease antitrust regulators, those same regulators and Opera Software weighed in on Redmond’s plan. Neither the European regulators nor Opera, the company which originally filed the antitrust case over browser-bundling against Microsoft in 2007, is completely keen on Microsoft’s proposed self-inflicted remedy. But the European Commission (EC) did lik...
Microsoft Set to Unveil Free AV Software News [June 15, 2009 22:08]From RealTechNews: "In November of last year, Microsoft said that it would be both dropping its OneCare security product and releasing a free product in the second half of 2009. At the time, Microsoft said that the free software would allow them to “to protect an even greater number of consumers, especially in markets where the growth of new PC purchases is outpaced only by the growth of malware.” It now appears that Microsoft is on the verge of releasing a beta version of that product."
Too many .Nets, too little time? News [June 15, 2009 22:08]From ZDNet: "Microsoft’s overzealous .Net branding campaign is a pretty much a thing of the past. But that doesn’t mean the .Net confusion is completely over. Microsoft’s attempt to juggle too many .Nets is coming home to roost with testers writing workflow-centric apps and services that can be hosted in the Azure cloud. In a posting to the Azure Services Platform blog last week, Microsoft officials admitted that .Net Services was based on a different, older version of .Net — and that the newer ...
SQL Server Mail Notification Downloads [June 15, 2009 00:15]To send email messages using this extended stored procedure you do not need to create a mail profile for the user account that is used to start an instance of the MS SQL Server. Also it is not required to have any email clients installed. The extended procedure allows you to send HTML formatted messages. Supports the MS SQL Server 2008/2005/2000/7.0/6.5.
DevTeach 2009 coverage report News [June 14, 2009 20:07]It’s that time of the year again for another great event from DevTeach. DevTeach brings together some of the greatest minds and speakers for a collection of hands on training session. The conference focuses on .NET, web development, Silverlight, SQL Server development and IT, Agile, software architecture, and application life-cycle. All of this all of this is presented using the latest Microsoft tools and products.
Experts: Chinese censorware carries botnet risk News [June 13, 2009 04:11]From ZDNet: "Experts have warned of serious security flaws in the Chinese government's censorship software, which could open the door to hackers creating huge botnets. Programming errors in the Green Dam Youth Escort software, which the Chinese Ministry of Industry and Information Technology said on Tuesday must be pre-installed on all new computers in the country, are at the root of the flaws, according to experts from the University of Michigan. "Once Green Dam is installed, any website the us...
Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox Updates Fix Bugs News [June 13, 2009 04:11]From EWeek: "Google and Mozilla both updated their Web browsers this week. Mozilla fixed 11 vulnerabilities in its update to Firefox, while Google fixed two in its Chrome browser. Mozilla and Google both patched critical vulnerabilities in their browsers this week. Of the two, Mozilla plugged the most security holes. The company fixed 11 vulnerabilities in a June 11 update to Firefox. More than half of the bugs were labeled as "critical.""
Facebook Members to Become Masters of Their Domain Names News [June 13, 2009 04:11]From TechNewsWorld: "At midnight, Facebook will give users the chance to claim a cleaner URL for their pages. What was once a messy string of numbers and letters could simply be changed to facebook.com/YourNameHere, for example. The move may make it easier to find other people and companies, but did the social networking site give businesses enough time to gear up? Is there potential for IP conflicts?"
Who's afraid of a digital world? The World Copyright Summit News [June 12, 2009 09:58]From Ars Technica: "The world's rightsholders gathered in Washington this week to discuss copyright in all its variegated glory, but the event was essentially about one topic: how do we survive in a digital world? Over the last two days, copyright owners from around the world gathered in Washington, DC for the second World Copyright Summit."
Microsoft proposes launching an IE-free Windows 7 'E' in Europe News [June 12, 2009 09:58]From ZDNet: "Microsoft is stepping up its campaign to try to appease European Commission (EC) regulators who are mulling possible remedies in the ongoing Opera-Microsoft browser-bundling case in the European Union. According to News.com, Microsoft’s newest proposal is to offer a version of Windows 7 which strips out Internet Explorer (IE) 8. Not hides it — like is currently possible via a “remove features” capability. The Softies are proposing to sell a separate version, designated Windows 7 E w...
Google Native Client moves beyond research phase News [June 12, 2009 09:58]From ZDNet: "Satisfied that its security underpinnings are solid, Google has promoted its open-source Native Client technology to accelerate web applications out of its research phase and is taking steps to build it into the Chrome web browser. "Based on our experience to date, we believe that the basic architecture of our system is sound and the implementation is supportable. So now we are undertaking a number of tasks to transition Native Client from a research technology to a development plat...
Command Bars (Ribbon) Library (version 7.0.008) Downloads [June 11, 2009 16:25]The Command Bars Library provides Visual FoxPro developers with a sophisticated Office style Command Bars and Ribbon. The Command Bars Library comes with built-in theme support that will allow you to choose from predefined themes such as Office 2000, Office XP, Office 2003, Office 2007, Office 2007 Ribbon, Windows XP, Visual Studio 2005 or custom themes. The Command Bars Library gives your Visual FoxPro application toolbars and menus a professional modern appearance similar to many popular Micro...
VFP 9.0 full time developer Jobs [June 11, 2009 14:35]Assistant Programmer Full time Assistant Programmer wanted with 3+ years of database coding experience in a Visual FoxPro environment. Description: Companions and Homemakers is an established and growing company that has been focusing on home care for older adults since 1990. This direct-employment position will work closely with the Lead Programmer in the further development, design, coding, and testing of an internal Visual Foxpro scheduling application. This application also interface...
Web 2.0 Named One Millionth English Word News [June 11, 2009 05:51]From EWeek: "Global Language Monitor, a language-monitoring group, claims that the millionth word to enter the English lexicon is "Web 2.0," an occurrence seemingly tailor-made to bring joy to technophiles and tears of rage to linguistic purists. Other linguists have taken issue with Global Language Monitor’s methods, decrying them as nonsense. The Global Language Monitor, an Austin, Texas-based firm devoted to tracking worldwide trends in language, decreed that the millionth word to enter the E...
Microsoft gets set to beta free antivirus package News [June 11, 2009 05:51]From ZDNet: "Microsoft is getting ready to unveil its long-anticipated free antivirus software, which will compete with products sold by Symantec and McAfee. On Wednesday, a Microsoft spokesman said the world's biggest software manufacturer is testing an early version of the product with its own employees. Microsoft would "soon" make a beta available via its website, he added, but declined to provide a specific date."
EC software law could divide open source News [June 11, 2009 05:51]From ZDNet: "The world of open-source development could be divided if the European Commission succeeds in passing a law extending consumer protection rules to software, according to experts. The Commission proposes software companies be held liable in the EU for the security and efficacy of their products. David Mitchell, senior vice president of IT Research at Ovum, thinks this may lead to a situation boosting current open-source vendors' business models, but making it more difficult for indepe...
Fastest way to find orphans FAQ [June 10, 2009 09:42]This FAQ describes a fast way to find orphans. There could be several methods to find orphans, but I show the best method for huge tables. I would like to thank Walter Meester for the idea described in this FAQ. This FAQ entry is based on this thread: Databases,Tables, Views, Indexing and SQL syntax Re: Best way to find orphans - seek vs SQL Thread #444141
Researchers comb search logs to learn where users get stuck News [June 10, 2009 07:02]From Ars Technica: "Researchers have combed search engine logs to determine when and how users refine their search queries, and when they find the built-in help system is actually helpful. We've spent a bit of time testing the limits of some new approaches to online search lately, and one of the key factors we judged the services by is their ability to fail in a useful manner. Anyone that performs searches on a regular basis is all too familiar with the experience of not getting the search terms...
Adobe fixes security bugs in Reader, Acrobat News [June 10, 2009 07:02]From ComputerWorld: "Adobe has released critical security patches, fixing 13 bugs in its Reader and Acrobat software. The patches were released Tuesday, the same day as Microsoft's monthly security update, making for a hectic day of patching for some system administrators. Microsoft patched a record 31 bugs, including critical flaws in Windows, Office, and Internet Explorer."
Microsoft rolls out record Patch Tuesday fixes News [June 10, 2009 07:02]From ZDNet: "Microsoft has released 10 security updates fixing a record number of Patch Tuesday holes, including one for a critical hole in Internet Explorer 8 that was exploited as part of a hacking contest at CanSecWest in March. The bulletin addresses 31 vulnerabilities. "It's the most since Microsoft started releasing updates on a regular schedule of the second Tuesday of every month in October 2003," a Microsoft spokesman said."
Adobe PDF auto Print ... no more save As Downloads [June 9, 2009 16:33]This Limited Class is for installs with the Adobe PDF printer and Adobe Distiller only. It allows you to save FoxPro reports to PDF without the pesky Save as dialog and without installing a post script printer.... The class does some limited editing of the registry (Name of the distiller printjob file only... nothing eccentric). It just changes the printjob file name for you ... so....put it in a loop.... and print out statements... This is a first pass... it has some error checking but it ...
10 Microsoft Updates Arriving Soon News [June 9, 2009 09:20]From ExtremeTech: "10 Microsoft Updates Arriving Soon Expect 10 Microsoft updates next Tuesday, with patches for Windows, Office, Word, and IE. Busy Patch From Microsoft in June Microsoft has released their Advance Notification Bulletin for next Tuesday's vulnerability disclosures and updates. It describes 10 updates: 6 to Windows, 1 to Office, 1 to Excel, 1 to Word, and 1 to Internet Explorer. The IE update appears to address the most serious vulnerabilities."
Virtual-machine exploit lets attackers take over host News [June 9, 2009 09:20]From ZDNet: "Penetration-testing company Immunity has exploited a flaw in VMware software that allows malicious code running in a virtual machine to take over the host operating system. Immunity included the attack code in an update to its commercial penetration-testing tool, Canvas 6.47, released on Tuesday last week. The attack code is in a module of the tool called Cloudburst. Cloudburst uses a vulnerability in the virtual-machine display functions of VMware Workstation that can be exploited ...
New Firefox hangs in limbo between beta and RC News [June 9, 2009 09:20]From CNet: "On the same day that Apple released the public version of Safari 4 for Windows and Mac, Mozilla published an update to its Firefox 3.5 beta. Available for Windows, Mac, and Linux, they're not calling this a beta version, but it's not a release candidate, either. Within the next 24 hours, the Firefox 3.5 beta 4 will auto-update to what Mozilla is calling a "preview" version. Users can also force the update by going to the Help menu, then Check for Updates. At the time of writing, it d...
Class that helps to provide shared table for auto complete fature. Downloads [June 8, 2009 12:23]This class provides shared table for auto complete textbox feature. Table can reside on any SQL database. MS SQL Server Express, PostgreSQL and FirebirdSQL backends were tested. Auto complete table is based on an offline view.
Down Under gets first dibs on Windows 7 News [June 8, 2009 10:21]From CNet: "The first retail sales of Windows 7 will take place in New Zealand and Australia on 22 October, Microsoft confirmed this week. Windows 7 will hit first New Zealand, then Australia, due to the countries' placement with respect to the International Date Line. Microsoft announced last week that its new operating system would hit retail shelves and start showing up on new PCs from October 22."
Verdiem dashboard displays PC power savings News [June 8, 2009 10:21]From CNet: "Verdiem on Monday is expected to release an add-on to its PC power-management software that gives people a customizable view of energy savings and carbon emissions reductions. The Seattle-based company said that the software, called Sustainability Dashboard, offers a visual display for a number of metrics, such as savings over time, and translates that into the equivalent of cars removed from the road or trees planted. It works with Surveyor, a program that lets IT departments automa...
US team create carbon nanotube ultra-memory News [June 8, 2009 10:21]From TheRegister: "US researchers have demonstrated a form of nanotube archival memory that can store a memory bit for a billion years, and has a theoretical trillion bits/square inch density. The researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and the University of California (UC) Berkeley were led by physicist Alex Zettl. They built a prototype device based on a nanoscale iron particle, about 1/50,000th the width of a human hair, moving along...
