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… meeting tonight. Details at http://www.bostonusergroups.com/vfpboston. Guy Pardoe will be continuing his excellent “Application Development Strategies” roundtable discussions from 6 to 7 PM. AppDevStrat discussions are highly interactive, well-moderated, and produce a lot of interesting information. We’re archiving the discussion transcripts on the web, using the http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bafug group collaboration software. Apply for membership there if you’re interested.

Guy also takes the podium for the main meeting, where he will demonstrate moving FoxPro data over the web using WebConnection.

Should be an informative and entertaining evening.

Ed Leafe has opened up the OpenTech forum so that new posts appear in an RSS file located here: http://leafe.com/opentech.xml. Let’s see if we can avoid drowning in FoxPro forum posts…

If you’re still looking for a great opportunity in the rapidly expanding blogosphere, consider the area of searching and cataloging. In this entry, Dave Aiello compares rssSearch and Feedster for features (Hint: try searching for “FoxPro” in both of them.)

Just got word from http://www.foxtoolbox.com that they have shipping confirmation that Visual FoxPro boxes are on their way. FTB seems like a good company, run by a couple of FoxPro guys I’ve met, and they are offering very competitive prices on VFP upgrades and full versions. In addition, they promise to contribute 3% of their sales to VFP user groups. If you haven’t placed your order yet, jump on it! This is an upgrade worth getting.

DAFUG – March 2003 Meeting. The Detroit Area Fox User Group (DAFUG) is proud to announce that Whil Hentzen of Hentzenwerke Publishing, will be presenting “New tools that will provide additional business opportunities for Fox developers” on Thursday March 20, 2003. This will be Whil’s third stop during his “Fox Is Everywhere” user group tour. Afterwards we will be discussing other FoxPro and developer topics at a local eatery. Directions, maps, email contacts, future meeting dates and topics, and other details can be found on our website www.dafug.org. [FoxCentral.Net]

Jon Udell says the Secrets of the XML Gods are that they are cobbling together XML by hand. He cites Sean McGrath’s blog and Tim Bray’s XML Is Too Hard for Programmers essays. Dave Winer retorts that his tool of choice has a good XML compiler built in.

I’m stuck with a similar conundrum, only I am just starting out. Up until this point, I’ve cobbled together XML using the CursorToXML() function built in to Visual FoxPro, but that’s only suitable for flat, repetitious XML. With the FoxCentral RSS File, I just manually wrapped header and footer elements around transformed XML. But with some other projects, like SMBMeta, I need to create truly hierarchical, multiple one-to-zero-or-many structures, and CursorToXML isn’t built for that. I’m looking for a simple “Hello, World” example of creating a document with XMLDOM or another tool, adding attributes, elements and nodes to it. Anyone got one handy?

VFUG March Newsletter Now Available. VFUG (the Virtual FoxPro User Group) just released the March issue of its monthly newsletter. Articles in this issue include one by regular contributor Les Pinter, Email VFP Reports by Phil Bartow, Understanding Structured Exception Handling in Visual FoxPro 8.0 by Mike Helland, Part 4 of A Basic Introduction to Automation using MS Visual FoxPro by Matt Jarvis, We Are All Visual FoxPro Beginners by Carl Warner, Wireless Devices, Part 3: SMTP > SMS > MMS by Tom O’Hare, tidbits on conferences, what’s new for Spanish members, assorted URL resources, tips including Using the Registry Class, End of File Gotcha, Extended Characters Showing Incorrectly, Office Menus – Prevent the Automatic Collapse, Paste from the Clipboard and then call a specific keypress, and more. As usual, you can view this monthly newsletter online or download its text version and all other back issues free at the VFUG site. Not a member? Join VFUG for free at the site. [FoxCentral.Net]