Snow Day / meeting cancelled User group meetings [February 8, 2010 17:48]Our February meeting has been cancelled due to the winter storm predicted for Tuesday, 9 Feb 2010. Mark your calendars for our next meeting on 9 March 2010: speaker(s) and topics(s) T.B.A.
Cancelled Due to Snow User group meetings [February 8, 2010 08:27]With another storm on the horizon, the February meeting is cancelled. This month, we'll have an open mike night. To kick things off, we ask everyone who's coming to "bring" one command or function that you find really useful, but think is not widely used. It could even be a particular way of using a command or function. If you can demo whatever it is from the Command Window, you don't need to bring a laptop; we'll have one available. Also, feel free to come with a short demo or a question...
Database Event Alerters Downloads [February 3, 2010 01:02]Databases supported by DB Event Alerter: MS SQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL, Firebird, MySQL. The event notification mechanism includes server and client components. An event can be posted by using the server component. The server component broadcasts event messages to interested client applications. An application can get messages using a client component. This component is the Sql_messenger ActiveX control. The control allows client application to receive me...
VFP Report Writer SP2 Updates User group meetings [February 1, 2010 17:38]Making the most of Visual FoxPro SP2 Reports and we will touch on HTML Reports and Drill Down Reports if there is enough time. The content will be taken from Cathy Pountney and Mike Feltman's sessions from SW Fox 2009.
CryptoLicensing For ActiveX 2010 released News [January 25, 2010 13:25]LogicNP Software has released CryptoLicensing for ActiveX 2010 which is a 100% solution to add licensing, copy-protection, activation and hardware-locking capabilities to your VB6, VBA, RealBasic, Delphi, Borland, MFC, ATL, C++, etc applications, libraries, components and controls. CryptoLicensing uses the latest military strength, state-of-the-art cryptographic technology to generate secure and unbreakable licenses to ensure that your software and intellectual property is protected. * Prote...
Visual WebGui Pro Studio 6.4 beta Downloads [January 22, 2010 11:36]Visual WebGui Professional Studio for .NET 3.5 (Visual Studio 2008) version 6.4 beta 1a
Visual WebGui platform further enhances its SDK with the integration of jQuery in its new 6.4 versio News [January 20, 2010 11:13]Tel Aviv, January 20, 2010 - Gizmox, the developer of Visual WebGui web/cloud applications platform announced today the release of its Visual WebGui 6.4 beta 1 version. The new version offers enhanced performance as well as enhanced customization, extension and user interface designing capabilities. The expanded capabilities include the integration of the jQuery library for faster behavior customization and user interface extension. This enables developers to create Web 2.0 user interfaces (UI)...
Cool Tools, Tips and Tricks - 2 User group meetings [January 20, 2010 05:42]Detroit Area Fox User Group (DAFUG) presents: "Cool Tools, Tips and Tricks - 2" 1) "Cool Tools, Tips and Tricks", by Dale Zimmer Dale is going to showing how he uses RSync in his development, and some other tools he wants to share. 2) CodeMash Recap Several people from DAFUG attended the recent CodeMash 2010 conference in Sandusky. Come listen to their experiences at the conference, what topics they found interesting, and how they benefited from the conference. 3) Planning, by al...
Crypto Obfuscator For .Net 2010 released News [January 20, 2010 04:10]LogicNP Software has released Crypto Obfuscator For .Net 2010 which provides advanced code protection, obfuscation and optimization for your .Net assemblies. Crypto Obfuscator combines powerful obfuscation, encryption and optimization techniques to provide the very best protection and performance to your .Net code against reverse-engineering. Additionally its metadata reduction, assembly & resource compression and dependency embedding functionality simplifies and reduces the deployment of your s...
DevTeach free community event. Build App for Windows 7 News [January 18, 2010 22:36]In partnership with Microsoft, DevTeach is announcing a Breakfast and User Group tour in seven cities in the country. Join Richard Campbell and Kate Gregory for an action-packed overview on Windows 7 application development. Whether you are looking to create more performant, reliable, or secure applications, or you are an application developer looking to leap-frog past your competition, this FREE event will provide you with the information you need to better understand the Windows 7 platform. Cl...
VFP Report Writer SP2 Updates Demonstration User group meetings [January 15, 2010 00:04] Making the most of Visual FoxPro SP2 Reports and we will touch on HTML Reports and Drill Down Reports if there is enough time. The content will be taken from Cathy Pountney and Mike Feltman's sessions from SW Fox 2009.
Accelerate Desk Business Solutions Consulting companies [January 14, 2010 10:58]Outsource your Visual Foxpro Development , web sites, mobile and handheld development needs! We at Accelerate Desk Business Solutions, Inc. have the special expertise in web, mobile, and handheld development that only years of experience in the international scene can give. Our skillset includes Visual Studio .NET, C#, ASP.NET, Visual Basic, SQL Server, Oracle, Visual Foxpro, Java, C++, PHP, Web Technologies, XML, GSM AT&T programming... you name it, we have it.
GeneXus IDE demo at Chicago FUDG User group meetings [January 11, 2010 08:01]On Tuesday Jan. 12 we will have a GeneXus rep to do a live demo of their IDE & development platform for VFP, as well as many other languages like Java & .Net. They recently released their 11th version. Local customers will also talk about their use of GeneXus. Les Pinter who many in the VFP community know, is a big proponent of GeneXus: “The degree of intelligence in the GeneXus IDE is really amazing. It is an eye-opener.” Les Pinter VFP MVP 2002-2005 Check it out-- http://www.genexus.com/...
CryptoLicensing For .Net 2010 released. News [January 9, 2010 21:21]LogicNP Software has released CryptoLicensing for .Net 2010 which is a 100% .Net solution to add licensing, copy-protection, activation and hardware-locking capabilities to your .Net, Windows Forms (WinForms) and WPF applications, components and controls and ASP.Net web sites. CryptoLicensing uses the latest military strength, state-of-the-art cryptographic technology to ensure that your software and intellectual property is protected. The new version supports running the license server in Mediu...
West Wind Web Connection 5.51 Downloads [January 7, 2010 20:00]Web Connection provides a rich, object oriented and FoxPro based framework for building Web applications. Version 5.0 adds a rich ASP.NET style object oriented page framework using 100% Visual FoxPro code while maintaining backwards compatibility with older versions. WWWC can also be used to build powerful distributed Web applications and provides tools to implement both the client and server of these distributed Web applications. And best of all you can do it all from within the familiar Visual...
Pluralsight .NET Training Training [January 6, 2010 17:35]Pluralsight is a premier Microsoft .NET training provider. Pluralsight delivers classroom and On-Demand! training around the world. The reputation of the Pluralsight technical team, the in-depth course content, along with the variety of training delivery methods, guarantees you access to the highest quality learning experience that makes the most sense for you and your business. We’re committed to leading with innovative training solutions with the ultimate goal of providing the best delivery pl...
Getting Your Head Around Business Objects User group meetings [January 6, 2010 16:51]For many years, we've heard that business objects are important, but most of the examples are tied too tightly to the user interface to really make the point. In this session, we use a highly graphical example to show how business objects can really improve your applications. We see how a well-designed set of business objects makes changing an application's behavior easier and keeps your application's functionality separate from its user interface.
Personalities of the year for 2009 announced News [January 2, 2010 13:41]The Universal Thread personalities of the year for 2009 have been announced. Congratulations to Naomi Nosonovsky, Bonnie Berent, Sergey Berezniker and Cetin Basoz. The top selections in the .NET, SQL Server and Visual FoxPro have been selected. Many thanks to those who took the time to participate in the voting process.
Command Bars Library (includes the Ribbon) (version 8.0.006) Downloads [December 30, 2009 02:33]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 2007/2010 Ribbon, Visual Studio 2005/2008 or custom themes. The Command Bars Library gives your Visual FoxPro application toolbars and menus a professional modern appearance similar to many popular Microso...
Common Controls Library (version 6.0.002) Downloads [December 30, 2009 02:33]A set of Windows Common Controls, it is not one more ActiveX, it does not wrap ActiveX controls and does not require any ActiveX at all! Includes the following controls: Animation, DateTimePicker, MonthCalendar, ProgressBar, ScrollBar, StatusBar, TrackBar and custom StaticImage control. You can attach the StatusBar control to main VFP screen and use it instead of native one, it also supports indicators: Date, Time, NUM, CAPS, INS/OVR, etc. You can display the Animation, ProgressBar, or StaticIm...
St_Denis library of User-defined functions LCK VFP Downloads [December 28, 2009 17:35]The ST_DENIS library is available for all versions Visual FoxPro through 9.0, FoxPro 2.6 for DOS and FoxPro 2.6 for Windows. In total the library has about 25 functions. In my humble opinion, it will be convenient to apply such functions for developing applications. Here is the list of functions from the library. STRTRANEX() - A function with enhanced search-and-replace capabilities as compared to the built-in function STRTRAN(). etc .. Working with arrays ARRAYSUM() - Returns the sum of...
Cursor Adapter .PRG generator Downloads [December 24, 2009 05:36]It generates a .PRG file for cursoradapter. So you can use that .prg file with your different forms. There isn't 512 chars barrel anymore. Update: ---------- -added bigint, blob, int support -option for not convert datetime to date -option for fullname of field types
Software Developer .NET (Multiple Permanent Positions Available!) Jobs [December 23, 2009 13:17]Due to growth, SunGard Public Sector in High Point, NC has multiple openings for talented .NET developers. This programmer develops and enhances database applications using Microsoft .NET and SQL Server. The Developer is responsible for designing, architecting, and developing applications, modules, and reports for .NET applications in the Public Safety Software industry (Police, Sheriff, 911). This developer works with product management to help set technical direction for the products and th...
VFP Developer (Multiple Permanent Positions Available!) Jobs [December 23, 2009 12:55]Due to growth, SunGard Public Sector in High Point, NC has multiple openings for talented Visual FoxPro developers. This programmer develops and enhances database applications primarily using the Microsoft Visual FoxPro development language and Microsoft SQL Server. Responsible for developing applications, modules, interfaces, and reports for applications in the Public Safety Software industry. This position requires working onsite in the High Point office. Minimal travel is required. Experi...
Nominate the Universal Thread Personality of the Year 2009 News [December 21, 2009 20:07]The Universal Thread Personality of the Year is a recognition for the effort given by an individual in regards to the Universal Thread. The 2009 edition is released. This relates to the recognition of the effort which took place during the year which could be in regards to various aspects that anyone from the community would judge valid for such a recognition. Three winners will be selected in each of the .NET, SQL Server and Visual FoxPro forums.
How to Make Your ASP.NET Third Party Component 10x Faster Articles [December 21, 2009 18:26]This document will explore the basics of enhancing 3rd party ASP.NET components performance by leveraging the Empty Client (an ASP.NET extension) pipeline. Submitted by Visual WebGui, the article gives background of how Empty Client works. This is targeted towards software architects and advance developers who would like to learn the basics of ASP.NET controls upgrade to become Empty Client native controls. This document describes the general process of migration; reading this document shou...
MSDN Webcast: Visual Basic 6 Simplicity and Intensive AJAX Richness for the Web and Cloud News [December 18, 2009 03:19]Have you asked yourself why Web development tasks are so complex? Why must you master so many different coding languages and moving-target standards to develop a single line-of-business Web application? Do you understand what it takes to optimize an application's performance and security and to minimize the bandwidth and the CPU consumption without drastically raising the development costs and time-to-market? Based on pages, the Web was designed to carry informative Web sites and some statel...
VFP Software Engineer (telecommute) Jobs [December 14, 2009 11:35]Siriusware is seeking a Visual FoxPro software engineer (telecommuter) with a high aptitude in engineering, math, or computer science. For details, visit the employment link above. In addition to what is mentioned there, strong experience with SQL Server, including T-SQL, is highly desirable. We have a rigorous application process and we have a great team because of it. Tell us in a cover letter why you are a good candidate and an even better fit for our company. Please submit a one page res...
West Wind Client Tools 5.51 Downloads [December 14, 2009 01:36]wwClient provides a rich client side library of tools for Internet enabling Visual FoxPro applications along with a large library of useful tools required for typical modern desktop applications. This class includes all of the functionality of the West Wind Internet Protocols including email (SMTP, POP3), powerful HTTP Web access tools, FTP, TCP/IP Sockets and more. The library also provides a lightweight business object class (wwBusiness), a SQL Server DAL class, remote Web data access using a ...
Introduction To Drupal User group meetings [December 9, 2009 19:36]Looking for a better way to manage your web site content? Drupal is an open source content management system framework that allows you to develop and deploy everything from simple blogs to complex Corporate Web sites... rapidly. This introductory session begins by showing you what is required to run Drupal, how to install and configure Drupal (6.x) and some of the modules and themes you will need. Then we will start and build a new web site project. Also, we will have our annual Christmas par...
