Los Angeles County Foxpro Boot Camp. 03/22/2003 VFP basics like you have never seen before! An all day Saturday Boot Camp NCR building — 100 N. Sepulveda Blvd., El Segundo, CA Two Tracks:Visual FoxPro Basics for Windows Data! Data! Data! – Data Conversions, SQL Select tricks and much more. http://www.lafox.org/Bootcamp.page.fox Posted, albeit really badly, at FoxCentral.Net
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Now that all the hard problems are solved…
VFP Etch A Sketch. Dave Aring’s VFP Etch A Sketch combines the nostalgia of the classic childhood toy with the modern computer. Created using only Microsoft Visual FoxPro, the VFP Etch A Sketch demonstrates just a small portion of this powerful software development tool’s versatility. [FoxCentral.Net]
What DAFUG? Detroit Area FoxPro User Group
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]
March 26th: Boston Area FoxPro User Group
Boston FUG, March 26th: Application Development and Data over the internet. The Boston Area FoxPro User Group meets the fourth Wednesday of nearly every month at the Microsoft offices in Waltham, MA, 6 PM – 9 PM. Open to the public. For directions and more information, visit the group homepage. Subscribe or read the meeting announcements by clicking here. Wednesday, March 26, 6-7 PM: “Application Development Strategies: Final acceptance criteria, sign off, future enhancements. ” 7 – 9 PM: Guy Pardoe discusses how a VFP application can use a data source located anywhere on the Internet with the use of West-Wind Web Connect. Demonstrations will include the use of VFP and SQL Server backends. [FoxCentral.Net]
VFP 8.0 EULA: Craig Folds
In his latest blog, Craig decides that Microsoft is right in enforcing their upgrade rights. I still think it is nonsense. The only people entitled to the upgrade are those who probably don’t need it, since they aren’t supporting previous deployments of FoxPro.
I think the upgrade discount ought to be a reward for loyalty to previous owners. I think the change in EULA is Microsoft’s way of extracting more revenue from their customer base. They’ve done really well at this, keeping up their revenues in a period where nearly all high-tech businesses have reported a downturn. But they are doing it at a cost to their customer base.
Finally, the real problem I have with the EULA is that Microsoft slip-streamed it in, and didn’t alert their customers that there was a license change they needed to be aware of. That was a violation of trust.
I had resolved to purchase a copy this time around, despite the seven MSDN subscriptions, past and present, and the many existing copies of VFP I own, as a means of communicating to Microsoft, in the language that they best understand ($$$) that VFP was an important product I wanted to see continued. I chose to purchase a full version, to avoid any question about my rights to use every version of VFP I need to support my customers. But I am not happy about the damage they are doing, once again, to their loyal VFP customer base.
Virtual FoxPro User Group for February Now Available
February VFUG Newsletter Now Available. VFUG (the Virtual FoxPro User Group) just released the February issue of its monthly newsletter. Articles in this issue include The XMLAdapter Class by Les Pinter, What The “Slammer” Worm Means To You by Mark Altenbernd, Part 3 of A Basic Introduction to Automation using MS Visual FoxPro by Matt Jarvis, Wireless Devices, Part 2: Addressing the Issue by Tom O’Hare, an article and resources on conferences, and some assorted utilities that include an Updateable SQL Server Cursor Class, a Wrapper for Gather, Number pages in multiple reports, Excel-VFP Functions, 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]
Legacy FoxPro Versions
An interesting survey on Ed Leafe’s site on the earliest version of FoxPro you use. A fairly small sample size so far, but please cast your vote. Courtesy Leafe.com
Pre-order Visual FoxPro 8.0 and help a FoxPro user group
Pre-order Visual FoxPro 8.0 and help the FoxPro community. FoxToolbox.Com is currently taking pre-orders for Visual FoxPro 8.0 Professional. Besides offering the lowest advertised price, FoxToolbox.Com donates 3% of sales to FoxPro User Groups for local marketing programs.
The Upgrade version is $299.00 and the full version is $562.47. Pre-ordering now could help lower pricing even further. Posting from FoxCentral.Net I’ve already ordered my full copy.
How about Foxcentral.net?
http://www.foxcentral.net was created by Rick Strahl based on an idea of Ken Levy’s, as a technical proof-of-concept of using Web Services in Visual FoxPro, and also to serve as a bulletin board for the FoxPro community.
Once I’ve gotten a little further along in RSS generation for the FoxForum Wiki, that’s the next place I’ll set my sights…
Steve Sawyer
Yet another FoxPro Wiki posting. I rewrote the RSS generator (up to version 0.2) to parse the text of the web page, de-HTML-ize it, and pass it to the news aggregators as a description. There’s still more to do, including a timestamp and author information, but progress continues. SteveSawyer. Steve Sawyer is a VisualFoxPro Developer, living in Metro Detroit, Michigan. He is currently a contributing editor for AdvisorPublications FoxProAdvisor, former editor of the monthly Tips column. He has recently completed (with JimBooth) EffectiveTechniques… from [FoxForum Wiki]