Servoy 4.0 Demonstration. November 18, 2008 22:30Los Angeles Visual FoxPro Developers Group We'll have a demonstration of Servoy 4.0. http://www.servoy.com
Overview of WMI September 16, 2008 22:30Los Angeles Visual FoxPro Developers Group Have you ever had the need to retrieve serial numbers of various components on a computer? How about just trying to figure out what kinds of hardware or software are installed? WMI can help you with these problems and a lot more! This session will give an overview of WMI, including samples of the kinds of information it can provide and how to use it. A VFP wrapper to make WMI calls easier is provided with this session.
We Used to Do it That Way, But ... September 9, 2008 19:00Philadelphia VFP User GroupEach new version of Visual FoxPro has brought new ways to do things, but breaking old habits is hard. Now that the VFP language has stabilized, it's time to hone our skills. This session examines some of the changes in the language over the years and demonstrates that learning to use the newer constructs can result in better, more maintainable, faster code.
Understanding Scope August 19, 2008 22:30Los Angeles Visual FoxPro Developers Group Do you know the difference between global, private and local variables? What about PCOUNT() versus PARAMETERS() or PARAMETERS versus LPARAMETERS? Why should you declare variables and arrays? And what is a form property anyway, and why would you want to use one? What happens if you have a RETURN statement in the middle of a WITH…ENDWITH section? This session will answer all these questions and more. Included are real world examples to help solidify these concepts in your mind.
Square Peg, Round Hole - Retrofitting Client Server Data Access into Legacy FoxPro Applications August 14, 2008 18:00Detroit Area Fox User GroupDetroit Area Fox User Group (DAFUG) presents: "Square Peg, Round Hole - Retrofitting Client Server Data Access into Legacy FoxPro Applications" By Toni Feltman of F1 Technologies Thursday, August 14, 2008 Southwest Fox 2008 Rehearsal - "Square Peg, Round Hole - Retrofitting Client Server Data Access into Legacy FoxPro Applications" - Toni Feltman With the increasing size of tables and changing application requirements, many seasoned FoxPro developers are being forced to move their ...
Setting up a LAMP server August 12, 2008 19:00Philadelphia VFP User GroupMenachem Bazian returns to the Philadelphia VFP User Group next week to continue his discussion about combining VFP with MySQL. This session will discuss how to set up a LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) server. It's a continuation of his last session on MySQL, but those who missed that meeting can still benefit from this one.
Whil Hentzen - Developer/Client Wikis and Tom Corrigan - Web Page Screen Scraping August 12, 2008 17:30Chicago FoxPro User/Developer GroupWe'll have a Milwaukee Brewer in town for a twilight twin bill. Lifetime FoxPro MVP, Whil Hentzen, will show us his techniques for setting up free form information web pages for his clients. Browsable, searchable, user maintainable, they are a great contribution to an organization. The nightcap will feature Tom Corrigan showing his use of Internet protocols to grab content from web sites for display in other formats.
SQLTeach special event: Smart Database Design with Paul Nielsen July 28, 2008 08:00Montreal FoxPro User GroupAgain this summer SQLTeach is hosting a special event in Vancouver. This time Paul Nielsen is giving a 2-day workshop (July 28-29) on Smart Database Design – advanced SQL Server development best practices. Paul is the author of the SQL Server 2005 Bible (Wiley); he is currently working on the SQL Server 2008 Bible, and he’s built his career turning around failed database projects. Based on sound data architecture, this seminar walks through every key design decision and shows you how to eval...
Cathy Pountney on "Customizing Your Vertical Market Apps" July 16, 2008 19:00Philadelphia VFP User GroupWriting a vertical market application can be very rewarding. You write one application, sell it numerous times, and sit back while the money rolls in. Well, that's the theory anyway. The reality is that often times, new clients want to buy your software, as long as you can change this one little thing. Managing custom code for various clients within your application can easily turn into a nightmare as your client base expands. This session shows you how to implement a customization methodology ...
Dabo! July 15, 2008 22:30Los Angeles Visual FoxPro Developers GroupPaul will show an in-production application I've written for my client using Dabo. Dabo is a 3-tier, cross-platform application development framework, written in Python atop the wxPython GUI toolkit. Paul willtalk about the methods used to develop, test, and deploy it, highlight some points in the code that show some of the real strengths of Dabo and Python, and then also hopefully have time to show some of the in-development RAD tools such as the class designer.
Marcia Akins on "Practical Uses for the Windows API" June 18, 2008 19:00Philadelphia VFP User GroupThis session introduces Windows API programming for Visual FoxPro developers. Marcia begins by reviewing what the API is and how to translates the examples that are often in Visual Basic or Visual C++ into good old Visual FoxPro syntax. She will then present several practical examples using Windows API functions to do things that cannot be accomplished using native Visual FoxPro commands. These examples include code to read the Windows Registry and retrieve user settings from the Control Panel, ...
Can You Top This? June 17, 2008 22:30Los Angeles Visual FoxPro Developers Group We'll be sharing tips, tricks, bloopers and code reviews at this meeting. Please share your ideas, both good and bad! Do you have tips to share? Some bad code you had (or have) to work on? Bring it on! Let's see if you can top what's shown. See you there!
June 2008 - Using VFPX in Live Applications June 12, 2008 18:00Detroit Area Fox User GroupDetroit Area Fox User Group (DAFUG) presents: "Using VFPX in Live Applications" By Rick Schummer of White Light Computing Thursday, June 12, 2008 - "Using Communication Tools for User Groups" by ALL There are a number of tools to communicate information to user group members like blogs and list servers. Rick wants to discuss what members would like to do to help foster communication in the group, or if it is even necessary. For instance, we can set up a blog and have meeting posts post...
PHP Basics part 2 May 20, 2008 22:30Los Angeles Visual FoxPro Developers GroupPHP Basics, part 2 PHP is THE most common web programming language. It runs well on both Linux and Windows. PHP is offered by the vast majority of web host companies, and you can find PHP hosting in all price ranges starting under $5.00 per month. PHP is an object oriented loosely typed language that has many features attractive to VFP developers. Jim Hunter will be presenting an introduction to PHP. It will be spread over two or more sessions and will include: Installation on a local PC ...
May 2008 - FoxTrails Revisited May 15, 2008 18:00Detroit Area Fox User GroupDetroit Area Fox User Group (DAFUG) presents: "FoxTrails Revisited" By Brian Marquis Thursday, February 21, 2008 - "FoxTrails Revisited" by Brian Marquis Join us for an in depth look at the Fox Trails framework. Go beyond a basic understanding of Fox Trails while we build an eCommerce application together. Bring your laptop for this hands-on course. Brian will provide a brief overview of Fox Trails for those who may be unfamiliar with it. Following the overview, those with a function...
Rick Schummer at Chicago FUDG - 13 May 08 May 13, 2008 17:30Chicago FoxPro User/Developer GroupLets give a great welcome to Rick Schummer. He will cover a buffet of VFP subjects. First: the state of SP2: it’s been wrongfully given a bad rap because of a few bugs despite having fixed over 100 bugs. Everyone should load it and test their apps with it so that we can flush out any other nasty bugs that might need to be addressed by Microsoft. Rick has a white paper on his website (www.whitelightcomputing.com) that explains how to load VFP 9 RTM, VFP 9 SP1, and VFP 9 SP2 all on the sam...
Mike Feltman - Collection Iteration and Arrays May 10, 2008 10:00Grand Rapids Area FoxPro User Group (GRAFUG)Please join us on Saturday, May 10th at 10:00 am for a presentation by Mike Feltman of F1 Technologies. See the GRAFUG website (www.grafug.com) for the meeting place and directions. Collection Iteration and Arrays Visual FoxPro has great support for collections. Virtually all of the objects that can contain other objects have a native objects collection that can easily be traversed to access their members. Object collections provide a great access point for performing the same or si...
PAFOX - May 1, 2008: Tamar Granor - Common Problems with VFP's SQL May 1, 2008 18:30Potomac Area FoxPro User AssociationNext Meeting: Thursday, May 1, 2008 @ 6:30:pm Feature Topic: Solving Common Problems with VFP's SQL Presented By: Tamar Granor Summary Content to follow, but we are ALL looking forward to have Tamar presenting at our meeting. * SPECIAL GUEST SPEAKER FOR MAY * Tamar Granor to present Common Problems with VFPs SQL There WILL be Pizza, drinks and other snacketizers provided. Please let me know if you plan on attending so we can adequately provide for food and seating.
Scoresheet, a VFP 9 report generator plus code review April 16, 2008 19:00Philadelphia VFP User GroupThe Philadelphia VFP User Group will meet Wednesday, April 16, 2008 at 7 PM at Valley Forge Pension Management, 715 Twining Road, Suite 202, Dresher, PA 19025. (The Oreland offramp from PA 309 Southbound has been permanently closed. The easiest way to reach the meeting location from the PA Turnpike or 309 Southbound is to come through the Fort Washington Industrial Park.) As always, you can bring dinner and arrive as early as 6:30 for some time to mingle. We have a double-header this month...
Why PHP? How PHP? April 15, 2008 22:30Los Angeles Visual FoxPro Developers Group PHP is THE most common web programming language. It runs well on both Linux and Windows. PHP is offered by the vast majority of web host companies, and you can find PHP hosting in all price ranges starting under $5.00 per month. PHP is an object oriented loosely typed language that has many features attractive to VFP developers. Jim Hunter will be presenting an introduction to PHP. It will be spread over two or more sessions and will include: Installation on a local PC Editors (e...
Rick Schummer - VFP 9 SP2 & More April 12, 2008 10:00Grand Rapids Area FoxPro User Group (GRAFUG)- VFP 9 SP2 - Show Us Your App - Advantage Database Server
April 2008 - "Collections" by Mike Feltman of F1 Technologies April 10, 2008 18:00Detroit Area Fox User GroupDetroit Area Fox User Group (DAFUG) presents: "Collections" By Mike Feltman of F1 Technologies Thursday, April 10, 2008 - "Collections" by Mike Feltman of F1 Technologies Visual FoxPro has great support for collections. Virtually all of the objects that can contain other objects have a native objects collection that can easily be traversed to access their members. Object collections provide a great access point for performing the same or similar actions on groups of objects. They also...
Internet App Demo and Project Management Tool Discussion April 8, 2008 17:30Chicago FoxPro User/Developer GroupMike Hogan will show his most recent Internet Application -- a tool for realtors to track listings, customers, and their preferences. Of particular interest, he says, is a template for uploading data and merging it to back end tables and FTP techniques. Patrick O'Hara is doing a short demo of a project back up utility. We'll also discuss favorite project management tools and techniques. How do you use source control, bug tracking, and other aids to collaboration and making deadlines? Ma...
Bob Pierce on the Guineu Project March 19, 2008 19:00Philadelphia VFP User GroupThe Guineu project is one of the most promising solutions to the VFP developer to be able to extend the viability of the language we all love. Being run by Christof Wollenhaupt, one of the brightest minds in the Fox community, the Guineu project is a replacement set of runtime DLL's that run your compiled VFP code in a .NET environment. So what does that mean for us, for starters your VFP application can now run on most platforms that support .NET. This includes future versions of MicroSoft ...
Web Designer Eye for the Programmer Guy March 18, 2008 22:30Los Angeles Visual FoxPro Developers GroupWeb design tips for programmers. Britt Ehringer will save us from the typical ugly web pages that us programmers create. Jump StartAutomatic Application Updating & Install, Michael Cummings Inno Setup easily handles Internet installs. The one catch is that if you add new files, you need to make a new setup exe. Michael will show how to create an installer/updater that will automatically notify users of new or changed files, and then only download the new or changed files.
"The Stonefield Query SDK" by Frank Perez March 13, 2008 18:00Detroit Area Fox User GroupDetroit Area Fox User Group (DAFUG) presents: "The Stonefield Query SDK" By Frank Perez of Complete Computer Solutions Thursday, March 13, 2008 - "The Stonefield Query SDK" by Frank Perez of Complete Computer Solutions - Open discussion and the other normal chatter of tips and tricks. - Anything else people want to talk about. *** NEW MEETING LOCATION *** Holiday Inn Express - Southfield 25100 Northwestern HWY Southfield, MI 48075 Hope to see you there. More DAFUG detai...
Rick Borup on QuickBooks QODBC March 11, 2008 17:30Chicago FoxPro User/Developer GroupQODBC is A fully functional ODBC driver for reading and writing QuickBooks 2008-2002 accounting data files by using standard SQL queries. Many applications have ODBC support built-in and can automatically use QuickBooks data with wizard ease once this driver has been installed. Applications such as VFP, Access, Excel, Visual Basic or Crystal Reports will immediately have real-time access to accounting data. http://www.qodbc.com/qodbc.htm IF anyone else has some experience with QuickBooks or ...
Jay van Santen - Personalizing VFP Applications March 8, 2008 10:00Grand Rapids Area FoxPro User Group (GRAFUG)Personalizing applications can be a challenge. If multiple customers use an application, it is important for the developer to maintain application and custom code as separate code bases. The presentation will illustrate different mechanisms for doing so, with multiple examples of increasing sophistication. Jay will provide code samples in this interactive session. This will be a fun opportunity to explore object oriented design and may provide a useful tool in your programming toolbox. ...
"On the Darkside of Visual FoxPro" - Christof Wollenhaupt February 21, 2008 18:00Detroit Area Fox User GroupDetroit Area Fox User Group (DAFUG) presents: "On the Darkside of Visual FoxPro" By Christof Wollenhaupt of FoxPert Thursday, February 21, 2008 - "On the Darkside of Visual FoxPro" by Christof Wollenhaupt of FoxPert Visual FoxPro is a lot: it's fast, productive, stable, amazing, surprising... but it certainly isn't logical and consistent. Over more than two decades with three fundamentally different programming concepts, four operating systems and two compilers left their traces in th...
Menachem Bazian on VFP and MySQL February 20, 2008 19:00Philadelphia VFP User GroupThe group will provide dinner this month, so if you plan to come in time to eat, email tamar@thegranors.com. Dinner begins at 6:30. Location: Valley Forge Pension Management, 715 Twining Road, Suite 202, Dresher, PA 19025 Note: The Oreland offramp from PA 309 Southbound has been permanently closed. The easiest way to reach the meeting location from the PA Turnpike or 309 Southbound is to come through the Fort Washington Industrial Park. Visual FoxPro is the premier tool for developing r...
Crystal Reports and VFP February 19, 2008 22:30Los Angeles Visual FoxPro Developers GroupVFP is a monster for data manipulation. Crystal Reports is a monster for paper reports, PDF, Excel, and many other outputs. Burt will show how easy it is to use the Crystal Reports royalty free runtime from VFP.
A Trio of Users Show Tips and Techniques February 12, 2008 17:30Chicago FoxPro User/Developer GroupThis month brings three interesting short presentations by our members: 1) Marc Temkin -- a technique to create stored procedures for queries against a hierarchy of SQL server tables. 2) Bill Drew -- using rules evaluation to reduce complexity when dozens of variables must be considered. 3) Brian Marquis -- how to use Fox Unit to implement test driven development. Join us. Bring your own best practices. There are a lot of problems still seeking solutions out there. Same time and p...
Jody Meyer - Show Us Your App February 9, 2008 10:00Grand Rapids Area FoxPro User Group (GRAFUG)Jody Meyer, System engineer for MAGI will be demonstrating their WinMAGI software. Who is MAGI? MAGI develops and supports high quality ERP business solutions for small to mid-sized manufacturers. MAGI has been developing software solutions since 1985 and has installations worldwide. Our premier product, WinMAGI, is a world class manufacturing ERP system for small to mid-sized manufacturers. It blends solid accounting and manufacturing practices in an easy to use and implement pa...
A VFP9 Overview of Anchoring and Resizing January 22, 2008 22:30Los Angeles Visual FoxPro Developers GroupOne day I had a thought -- provide users with the option of proportional form resizing (as provided by the Visual Fox Express framework) or by using VFP 9 anchor properties. To a degree, I wished I'd left it at that -- as a thought. It isn't for the faint of heart. I did implement such a design, configurable for each form! More importantly, here's some of the things I learned along this path: 1) Anchoring issues in my head (things I thought were VFP bugs, weren't) 2) Anchoring issues in ...
The Guineu Project January 16, 2008 19:00Philadelphia VFP User GroupThe Guineu project is one of the most promising solutions to the VFP developer to be able to extend the viability of the language we all love. Being run by Christof Wollenhaupt, one of the brightest minds in the Fox community, the Guineu project is a replacement set of runtime DLL's that run your compiled VFP code in a .NET environment. So what does that mean for us, for starters your VFP application can now run on most platforms that support .NET. This includes future versions of Microsoft O...
January 2008 - Q&A January 12, 2008 10:00Grand Rapids Area FoxPro User Group (GRAFUG)Hi everyone, This is the monthly reminder of an upcoming GRAFUG meeting: Saturday, January 12th 10:00 am – noon (or so) Optimal Solutions 1055 Gezon Parkway Wyoming, MI 49509 January’s “Main Presentation” is presented by everyone. We are having an open Q&A session!! So please come and bring all your questions, answers, comments, cool things you’d like to show off, or anything else relevant to the group. We will also be discussing the results of the survey that was sent out and...
Web 2.0 Technology Lessons January 10, 2008 18:00Detroit Area Fox User GroupDetroit Area Fox User Group (DAFUG) presents: "Web 2.0 Technology Lessons" By David Holden of Holden Data Systems Thursday, January 10, 2008 - "Web 2.0 Technology Lessons" - David Holden Dave will be sharing some of the surprising lessons learned over the last several months doing web development using so-called "Web 2.0" development tools. The discussion will center around JavaScript, the browser DOM and third party libraries. - Open discussion and the other normal chatter of tip...
Customization of Applications - Jay van Santen January 8, 2008 17:30Chicago FoxPro User/Developer GroupJanuary at CFUDG will feature Jay van Santen. When multiple customers use an application, it is important for the developer to maintain application and custom code as two separate code bases. His presentation will illustrate different mechanisms for doing so, with multiple examples of increasing sophistication. The focus will be on a customization infrastructure. Jay van Santen has been a Fox developer for the past 18 years. He has developed his own applications and worked on a number ...
Lucene.NET as a Document Search Engine December 13, 2007 18:00Detroit Area Fox User GroupDetroit Area Fox User Group (DAFUG) presents: "Lucene.NET as a Document Search Engine" By Paul Mrozowski from Wireless Toyz Thursday, December 13, 2007 - "Lucene.NET as a Document Search Engine" - Paul Mrozowski Paul will show how to use Lucene.NET, an open source and free document indexing engine, from within your VFP application. He'll demonstrate how to create the indexes, search common document types (text files, Word Documents, PDF's, etc.), plus how to index and search text cont...
SouthWest Fox 2007 demonstrations December 11, 2007 19:30Los Angeles Visual FoxPro Developers GroupThe December presentation will have a variety of abbreviated demos from the long list of sessions from SouthWest Fox 2007. These will include: More than 254 fields in a VFP table. Regular Expression Evaluation (Text Search on Steroids) Outfox the VFP Report Writer (Cathy Pountney's fully extends the Printer Dialog etc.) QuickBooks Automation And time providing we can touch on "No Boundaries Visual FoxPro Web Applications - A recent Google search found over 850,000 web pa...
Toni Feltman unwraps Sedna DBI controls and Etechnologia December 11, 2007 17:30Chicago FoxPro User/Developer GroupMerry Xbase! Gather at the Chicago FUDG meeting as Toni Feltman unwraps presents from DBI Technologies. They are some sparkling screen controls which are included in the Sedna release of Fox add ons. She'll also give us a peek at Etechnologia, the tool that compiles VFP code into Dot Net executables. Toni is one of the original Fox Software employees from its days in Toledo and now an owner of F1 Technologies (Fox Express framework).
Guineu Project November 28, 2007 19:00Philadelphia VFP User GroupThe Guineu project is one of the most promising solutions to the VFP developer to be able to extend the viability of the language we all love. Being run by Christof Wollenhaupt, one of the brightest minds in the Fox community, the Guineu project is a replacement set of runtime DLL's that run your compiled VFP code in a .NET environment. So what does that mean for us, for starters your VFP application can now run on most platforms that support .NET. This includes future versions of MicroSoft...
Rencontres 2007 November 14, 2007 00:00AtoutFox - Communauté Francophone des Professionnels FoxProLes Rencontres AtoutFox 2007 se dérouleront du 14 au 16 novembre 2007, dans les locaux du Centre de Conférences de Microsoft : 148 rue de l'Université à 75007 PARIS 3 jours de conférences et de présentations sur Visual FoxPro 9 SP2, Sedna et des solutions au delà de Microsoft Visual FoxPro
Frank Marafino -- Southwest Fox 2007 November 13, 2007 19:30Los Angeles Visual FoxPro Developers GroupFrank Marafino will talk about the exciting details at the Southwest Fox 2007 conference last month and other exciting items: 1. Recap of the 2007 Southwest Fox Conference. 2. An overview of one or more sessions from 2007 Southwest Fox including what is new in the VFPX Project. 3. Main event – Demo and instructional how to on Rick Strahl’s new Web Connect 5.3 development tools. Do you want to build and deploy VFP apps to any web browser? If so this lecture will get you star...
Remember November is for Member Talks November 13, 2007 17:30Chicago FoxPro User/Developer GroupNovember at CFUDG features presentations by our local members. This month we have Jim Wiggins, Tom Corrigan, and Marc Temkin. Jim Wiggins will share my techniques for getting users to be more specific about what they want and demonstrate a program he uses to help him do this. Jim has been using Fox since the days of FoxBase. Tom Corrigan will talk about generating code (Foxpro, .Net, whatever) from templates using a derivative of Foxtrails and about why you'd want to do this. Marc Temkin h...
MapPoint November 8, 2007 18:00Detroit Area Fox User GroupDetroit Area Fox User Group (DAFUG) presents: "Map Your Data: Using MapPoint and Visual FoxPro Together" By Steve Bodnar of Geeks and Gurus, Inc. Thursday, November 8, 2007 - "Map Your Data: Using MapPoint and Visual FoxPro Together" - Steve Bodnar Steve's object is to Explore Microsoft MapPoint and demonstrate how VFP Developers can incorporate this comprehensive mapping tool into VFP-based solutions. Demonstrations will include using MapPoint out of the box with VFP data, Automati...
Southwest Fox Review plus Keeping Users Informed October 24, 2007 19:00Philadelphia VFP User GroupWe'll have a review of Southwest Fox 2007. Plus Bill Fitzgerald will talk about the use of asynchronous queries and transactions to keep designated users informed of important changes in the status quo of a business. The focus will be on a framework his company has developed and successfully deployed for several clients.
VFP-9 SP2 and VFP9 Running Under VISTA October 18, 2007 18:30Rocky Mountain Fox User GroupService Pack 2 for VFP 9 has been released and is available at http://msdn.microsoft.com/vfoxpro . Also, DBI Software has released 8 free ActiveX controls for VFP9 SP2, available at http://www.dbi-tech.com/Special_Offers_SednaComponents.asp . On Thursday Jim Slater will demonstrate VFP9 SP2 running under Vista and discuss VFP9 / Vista compatibility issues. He will also review the current status of several add-ons under development for VFP 9 to increase compatibility with Vista and interopera...
The Power of Interceptor-type classes October 17, 2007 18:30Sydney Visual FoxPro Users GroupNick Neklioudov, three times Microsoft MVP, Senior Analyst at CGI Inc. Canada, will be in town to give the presentation about using the Interceptor-type class for handling Drag & Drop functionality in VFP forms. Drag & Drop functionality is common in Windows applications and typically requires adding the code to every control to support Drag & Drop operations. However, there is a way to implement it without changing a single line of code in your existing form controls.
OutFox the VFP Report Writer: Printing on My Terms October 11, 2007 18:00Detroit Area Fox User GroupDetroit Area Fox User Group (DAFUG) presents: "OutFox the VFP Report Writer: Printing on My Terms" By Cathy Pountney of Memorial Business Systems Thursday, October 11, 2007 - "OutFox the VFP Report Writer: Printing on My Terms" - Cathy Pountney Southwest Fox Rehearsal Night! The Visual FoxPro Report Writer has great power, but sometimes you need to print reports slightly different than the native behavior. In this session I'll show you how to use the VFP ReportListener object, co...
