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Screencast: Class Browser for Visual FoxPro by Ken Levy Thursday, February 2nd, 2012 at 13h24 Class Browser in Visual FoxPro Tips and tricks using the Class Browser in Visual FoxPro including: Various techniques and tips for launching and persisting Filtering, drag-and-drop, moving, copying, redefining, and more Many tips and features undocumented in the VFP 9.0 help file Price: $10 | Length: 68min | Date: Feb 2, 2012 | Screencast #1

GoFish 4.2 released on VFPx Monday, January 30th, 2012 at 10h32 GoFish is an advanced code search tool for fast searching and replacing of Visual FoxPro source code. New feature in 4.2 include: Improved UI layout New "Advanced Replace" mode calls any UDFs to handle replace logic Better support for searching/browsing DBFs Objects/Properties are now automatically selected when opening files for edit See Wiki for complete changelog: https://bitbucket.org/mattslay/gofish4/wiki/Home

Transparent Bitmaps on Buttons and other Controls Friday, January 27th, 2012 at 08h58 Overlayed bitmaps in FoxPro have always been a royal pain, but in order to make a UI that looks clean, getting some sort of transparency to work with FoxPro controls is pretty important. Although FoxPro supports most common image formats including GIF and PNG that support transparency, the transparency isn't supported everywhere within the product. Specifically the FoxPro Image control supports transparency of the various transparent image formats. If you load up an image control with a GIF...

West Wind Html Help Builder 4.66 released Wednesday, January 25th, 2012 at 20h41 West Wind Technologies has released version 4.66 of West Wind Html Help Builder. Help Builder produces documentation for Html Help (CHM), Web ready HTML and Word/PDF format for end user applications as well as developer documentation for FoxPro, .NET, Sql Server, Web Services and other environments. Version 4.66 adds many small user interface enhancements to the IDE and a host of new backup and project export features to Zip files. There are also a number of improvement for .NET imports includin...

CryptoLicensing For .Net 2012 released Tuesday, January 24th, 2012 at 21h17 LogicNP Software has released CryptoLicensing for .Net 2012 which is a 100% .Net solution to add licensing, copy-protection, activation, hardware-locking and usage-reporting capabilities to your .Net, Windows Forms, WPF, Silverlight, Windows Phone 7, Compact Framework, Xbox and XNA apps and libraries and ASP.Net web sites. CryptoLicensing uses the latest military strength cryptographic technology to ensure that your software and intellectual property is protected. A unique new feature is Usage R...

Remove Complexity and Add Functionality Tuesday, January 24th, 2012 at 14h17 Creating Scheduling and Optimization software does not have to be a complex design process - When you use DBI's industry tested Scheduling and UI design Component software Solutions complexity dissolves and new functionality becomes a natural extension of the built-in component product features. DBI Technologies Inc is proud to announce the release of Solutions Schedule for .NET version 5.0. Responding to customer requests and increasing market demand for solutions that help organizations ...

Russ Fustino on Making Money on Mobile Apps Monday, January 23rd, 2012 at 20h42 Russ Fustino has created many Windows Phone 7 applications. In this interview, Russ talks about how best to make money from your mobile apps. Technology And Friends is a Web site which contains video archives from developers in regards to software development.

Verisign to Award New Infrastructure Research Grants Wednesday, January 18th, 2012 at 17h55 VeriSign, Inc. today announced the expansion of a grant program designed to promote cutting-edge research into strengthening and improving the Internet's global infrastructure. This year's program will focus specifically on fostering infrastructure improvements that support safe and secure Internet access for users around the globe, especially in the developing world.

Properties and Methods in Ruby from a .NET POV Wednesday, January 18th, 2012 at 14h18 This article discusses some issues with Properties and Methods in Ruby from a .NET POV. C# developers are used to working with fields, properties, and methods. But there’s certain confusion when it comes to understanding how those work in Ruby. So let’s have a quick C# refresher.

Personalities of the year for 2011 announced Tuesday, January 3rd, 2012 at 10h35 The Universal Thread personalities of the year for 2011 have been announced. Congratulations to Naomi Nosonovsky, Sergey Berezniker, Borislav Borissov and Viv Phillips. 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.

Displaying and Saving Unicode data in Visual FoxPro desktop application Monday, January 2nd, 2012 at 08h26 Recently I had to deal with the problem of displaying and saving Unicode data in a Visual FoxPro form. As we all know, Visual FoxPro does not support Unicode, so this was quite a challenge for me. I would never have solved this problem by myself if Gregory Adam from the UniversalThread would not lend me his generous support and practically solved the problem of saving for me. I want to show the full solution we came to together as this may be a very important topic for the remaining Visual FoxPr...

Remove duplicates records in a smart way in SQL Server Wednesday, December 28th, 2011 at 14h55 The idea is to perform data cleansing while removing records where you can control any aspect of it. What's even better is the ability to combine different pieces of data from different records into one record while the rest of the records for that partition (group) are removed with no data being lost. Duplicate data is a problem that exists in many databases and the purpose of removing duplicate records is to improve productivity and increase the performance of your database.

DBF Viewer 2000 v4.35 released Monday, December 12th, 2011 at 09h02 HiBase Group released DBF Viewer 2000 v4.35, the newest version of dbf file viewer and dbf editor. The new version adds searching in memo fields for wide filter, improves importing from xlsx to dbf.DBF Viewer 2000 offers all the tools and options to let database administrators view and edit all types of DBF databases

Southwest Fox 2012 Monday, December 5th, 2011 at 17h02 Southwest Fox 2011 was a great success. Now we're trying to figure out what form next year's event will take. You can help us by answering a few questions about your preferences. Please take the survey at https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/VCCKNDG, so we can include your input. Whether you attended Southwest Fox this year, or it's been a few years, or you never attended Southwest Fox, your input will really help us figure out what direction to take next year and in the years to come.

Nominate the Universal Thread Personality of the Year 2011 Friday, December 2nd, 2011 at 13h20 The Universal Thread Personality of the Year is a recognition for the effort given by an individual in regards to the Universal Thread. The 2011 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.

Webinar: FoxFire! Reporting for Servoy with Andrew MacNeill and Ken Levy Friday, December 2nd, 2011 at 00h57 As many Visual FoxPro developers know, Foxfire! (foxfirereporting.com) from Micromega Systems is a great report writer that's easy to use and powerful for everyday business people. With Foxfire! you can extract and mine data from databases and create a variety of outputs for reports, spreadsheets, charts, pivot tables, data files, and more – without having to be reporting or database expert. Foxfire! 8 within the product line includes both Windows and web based versions. Along with the announcem...

Try Out Windows Phone on Your iPhone or Android Right Now Wednesday, November 30th, 2011 at 08h42 Have you been curious about Windows Phone 7.5 (Mango)? Maybe you want to try it out without standing around in some store? Microsoft just made it easy to do exactly that on your iOS or Android phone. No installations required. It's super simple. All you have to do is go to http://aka.ms/wpdemo in your iOS or Android browser. You'll be directed to an interactive HTML5 page that gives you a very detailed introduction to the look and feel of Windows Phone 7.5. I just took it for a little spin...

Free Webinar: Introduction to XAML Development on Windows 8 Tuesday, November 29th, 2011 at 11h00 At BUILD 2011, Microsoft announced Windows 8. This upcoming version of Windows is probably the biggest change the OS ever went through. Windows 8 focuses on web, apps, touch and the tablet form factor. For developers, things will change as well. They need to be ready to build applications, called Metro applications, tailored for Windows 8 or adapt their existing applications for the new OS. Together with Windows 8, Microsoft announced Windows Runtime (WinRT), a new way of working with Windows. ...

SQL Server - Profiler - Part 3 Sunday, November 20th, 2011 at 23h08 Based on popular demand from my colleagues and you, the kind reader, I am currently writing a series of posts on the SQL Server Profiler. The first part was an introduction attempting to answer the question - What is a SQL Trace? Permissions, space requirements and launching the Profiler. The second part dealt with Profiler Templates, Template Types & creating custom templates. Today, we will attempt to answer the following questions: How to “execute” a basic Profiler trace? Which are som...

Stonefield Query Celebrates Its 20th Anniversary Friday, November 18th, 2011 at 12h09 The Stonefield Query SDK (Software Developer Kit) remains Stonefield's flagship product. With the SDK, developers can build custom user-friendly reporting solutions for in-house or commercially deployed applications. Stonefield continues to build custom versions of Stonefield Query for ERP and CRM applications, such as: AccountMate, Sage ACT!, ALERE, GoldMine, HEAT, Sage Accpac ERP, Sage BusinessVision, Sage Pro ERP, SalesLogix.

New version for Code Framework Friday, November 18th, 2011 at 08h31 CODE Framework is a business application development framework from the makers of CODE Magazine, Markus Egger, and EPS Software Corp. CODE Framework consists of various components and tools that help developers with common aspects of business application development, such as simplified SOA development with various clients, or WPF development, data access, and much more. The main focus of this framework is to enable productive, flexible, and highly maintainable business application developme...

GoFish 4.1 Beta released on VFPx Thursday, November 17th, 2011 at 13h20 The beta release of GoFish 4.1 has been released on VFPx. New features include: Recent search expressions and search scopes are available in dropdown lists UI updates to allow more search options from the main form Automatic update feature (via Thor Tool Manager) Quick access to GoFish Discussion Group

CryptoLicensing For ActiveX 2011 R3 released Thursday, November 17th, 2011 at 04h59 LogicNP Software has released CryptoLicensing For ActiveX 2011 R3 which adds 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. A unique new feature is Usage...

SQL Server - Database Backup files Verification and Details Wednesday, November 16th, 2011 at 12h37 As a best practice, DBA need to verify each database backups are properly done or not, also make sure the backups are OK then is readable and can be restored. Because so many databases are scheduled as FULL and differential backups weekly/daily and transaction log backups on every hours or whatever as per requirement performing to avoing data loss.

Webinar: Ken Levy Creates Cloud Hosted Servoy App with Existing DBF Data Friday, November 11th, 2011 at 16h16 Ken Levy, former Visual FoxPro Product Manager will host this comprehensive one-hour webinar -- including a demonstration and discussion on building a web based application using existing DBF data hosted in the Cloud, all created from scratch within the one hour webinar. Many Visual FoxPro developers who have learned to develop with Servoy have found Servoy's development platform easy, powerful, and beneficial; as well as appreciate Servoy's dynamic programming features and rich data model funct...

Tango allows you to make free phone calls and free video calls Wednesday, November 9th, 2011 at 17h23 Tango allows you to make free phone calls and free video calls over 3G, 4G, and Wi-Fi. Make calls to any other person who has Tango installed on their smartphone, tablet or PC. Start a Tango call with just voice, and easily move into a video call when you have something to share. It’s easy to use, it’s fun, and it works. Tango Features: Free calls between Windows Phone, Android and iOS phones and tablets, and PCs Save money with free international calls to other Tango members Start a p...

October 2011 Servoy Newsletter for VFP Developers from Ken Levy Wednesday, November 9th, 2011 at 17h14 Will Microsoft's efforts to build developer tools and enhance their own apps for Windows 8 Metro style apps end up competing with their strategy and sales of Windows upgrades and Windows based desktop apps? For developers and businesses, will the trend through this decade be for an increasing or decreasing number of apps (consumer and line of business) created to run exclusively on the Windows platform, or more towards creating cross platform/browser/device solutions?

Xbase++ 2.0 roadmap revised Tuesday, November 8th, 2011 at 18h08 The roadmap and featureset of Xbase++ 2.0 have been extended to cover Web and Connected Mobile application development, but also to enable Visual FoxPro developers to jump start with Xbase++ now. The latter is achieved with new commands and datatypes which not only increase Visual FoxPro compatiblity, but also boost Xbase++ developers' productivity.

C# Dynamic Features Helped Me Learn Ruby Monday, November 7th, 2011 at 12h42 Up until version 3.0, C# had been a static language. Dynamic features were introduced to the language in version 4.0, as an attempt to improve COM support and interoperability between C# and dynamic languages, such as JavaScript. I ended up using those dynamic features for different reasons, though.

Updating live tiles without draining your battery Thursday, November 3rd, 2011 at 08h09 One thing that is becoming far more commonplace across all of our “screens” is the idea of lightweight notifications. Originally, Windows Gadgets were to offer this type of functionality—the idea is a quick heads up display for some critical information (news, weather, sports scores, or line of business events are a few examples). However, the startup time and model of Gadgets are not compatible with reducing overall power consumption (something that is important in a desktop and a laptop) or wo...

LightSwitch Star Contest Tuesday, November 1st, 2011 at 12h58 Visual Studio LightSwitch is the easiest and quickest way to build business applications for the desktop or the cloud. Do you have what it takes to be a LightSwitch Star? Show us your coolest, most productive, LightSwitch business application and you could win an ASUS U31SD-DH31 Laptop! Build an application today! Learn more about what LightSwitch can do for you. Download the 90-day trial. Discover a wealth of resources for learning Visual Studio LightSwitch.

2011 FoxPro Lifetime Achievement Award Recipients Monday, October 31st, 2011 at 17h51 At the keynote for Southwest Fox 2011, Rick Schummer, Tamar Granor, and Doug Hennig had the pleasure of announcing this year’s recipients of the FoxPro Lifetime Achievement Award: Drew Speedie, Steven Black, and Toni Feltman. See Doug's blog (http://doughennig.blogspot.com/2011/10/2011-lifetime-achievement-award.html) for details.

2011 VFPX Administrators’ Award Monday, October 31st, 2011 at 17h48 The VFPX Administrators’ Award is an annual award given by the VFPX Administrators (Craig Boyd, Rick Schummer, and Doug Hennig) to recognize those people who made outstanding contributions to the VFP community through their projects on VFPX. At the keynote for Southwest Fox 2011, the award was given to Joel Leach for his work with ParallelFox and FoxTabs. Congratulations to Joel and thanks for all your efforts in making VFPX the future of VFP.

Annoncing the contestants in the Ottawa IT Speaker Idol (Nov. 2nd.) Sunday, October 30th, 2011 at 13h14 The contestants in the Ottawa IT Speaker Idol have been announced. This is an event which will be presented on November 2nd. Presentations will include WP7 Push Notification, Extensions to the Enum class, custom Attribute and resource files, Adding SMS and telephone capabilities to your .Net application using Twilio and Add a SharePoint Document Library to Your .NET Application. This event is part of the DevTeach organization and its related event. DevTeach stands for Developers Teaching. I...

Free bonus sessions offered for those who cannot attend DevTeach Thursday, October 27th, 2011 at 23h16 You like to go the DevTeach but your boss do not agree you? That ok, in collaboration with the local community, DevTeach is presenting 4 bonus sessions. On November 2nd, you can attend for free the Ottawa IT Community Speaker Idol. Come and see a friendly contest where local speakers have to do a 10 minutes presentation; the audiences will choose the winners. On November 3rd, we’re having three user groups presentations at the same time. The OttawaSQL will be presenting a sessions by Paul Niels...

ActiveVFP 5.6 has been released on Codeplex Tuesday, October 25th, 2011 at 13h23 ActiveVFP 5.6 has been released on Codeplex - http://activevfp.codeplex.com ActiveVFP 5.6 is essentially the same as ActiveVFP 5.5 but adds the following features: Scriptmapping capability such as http://localhost/demo/sessionlist.avfp instead of http://localhost/demo/default.aspx?action=sessionlist. You can also use your own custom scriptmap instead of .avfp (simply edit Web.Config) AVFP Scripts are moved front and center to the root application directory. ASP.NET is still used but ...

DBI Technologies Inc Releases Solutions Schedule for COM v11 Monday, October 24th, 2011 at 16h35 DBI Technologies Inc., the recognized innovator of resource scheduling and component based software solutions, is proud to announce the release of Solutions Schedule for COM version 11. Responding to customer requests and increasing market demand for solutions that help organizations attain optimized resourcing and process efficiencies, this new release of Solutions Schedule answers those specific needs. Key new features highlighted in version 11 include: Schedule Area Notes Tips...

Major update released for Thor and Thor Repository Monday, October 24th, 2011 at 11h07 A major update has been released for Thor, the tool manager for FoxPro IDE, and the Thor Repository, a tool library for Thor. This update includes a new One-Click Update feature which downloads and installs other Thor supported applications, such as Thor Repository, PEM Editor with IDE Tools, and GoFish4. Visit http://bit.ly/VFPx-Thor to download Thor 1.10, and then run “Check for Updates” under the Thor menu to download or update all Thor supported tools.

CryptoLicensing For .Net 2011 R3 released Monday, October 24th, 2011 at 06h28 LogicNP Software has released CryptoLicensing for .Net 2011 R3 which is a 100% .Net solution to add licensing, copy-protection, activation, hardware-locking and usage-reporting capabilities to your .Net, Windows Forms, WPF, Silverlight, Windows Phone 7, Compact Framework, Xbox and XNA apps and libraries and ASP.Net web sites. CryptoLicensing uses the latest military strength cryptographic technology to ensure that your software and intellectual property is protected. A unique new feature is Usag...

FolderView.Net Control 2012 released Friday, October 21st, 2011 at 07h25 LogicNP Software has released FolderView.Net 2012 which brings drop-in Windows-Explorer-like folder browser functionality to your Windows Forms apps. This UI component is a perfect replacement for the plain, inflexible, modal APIs which developers are currently limited to. It offers complete support for AutoUpdate, dragdrop, icons, contextmenus, non-filesystem items, default key-handling, infotips and renaming. It features powerful behavior control and customization functionality that takes it m...

West Wind Web Connection 5.60 released Thursday, October 20th, 2011 at 22h34 West Wind Technologies has released version 5.60 of their Web Development framework for Visual FoxPro. Web Connecton makes it easy to build Web and distributed applications with Visual FoxPro using pure Foxo code within the Visual FoxPro IDE while optionally supporting design time integration with Visual Studio. Version 5.60 adds easier deployment to low cost ISPs via registrationless COM and self-contained file base server installs. The Web Control Framwork adds a new AutoComplete control and t...

DBF Viewer 2000 v4.25 released Monday, October 17th, 2011 at 07h58 HiBase Group released DBF Viewer 2000 v4.25, the newest version of dbf file viewer and dbf editor. The new version adds command line generation for exportiong dbf files to other formats.As distinct from similar tools, DBF Viewer 2000 can export memo fields to multiple formats, such as XLS, XLSX, CSV, SQL, XML and HTML

Southwest Fox 2011 Session Schedule Posted Thursday, September 29th, 2011 at 11h09 The session schedule for Southwest Fox 2011 is now available. Exhibitor sessions don’t appear but will be added soon. One change you may like this year is the ability to add a session to your calendar on your laptop or smartphone: simply click the calendar icon that appears beside each session. Dave Aring’s popular Kokopelli session scheduler application will be available soon; watch for an announcement when it’s ready.

Aggregates with multiple tables Sunday, September 25th, 2011 at 21h25 In this blog post I would like to touch a very common problem which often triples newbies and even serious SQL Professionals. I wanted to write this blog post for quite some time, but always put it aside. However, just a few days ago I have been dealing with this problem at my work place, so I believe it's time to discuss the problem. For the discussion let's consider AdventureWorks database SalesOrderHeader and SalesOrderDetail tables. To illustrate the problem, let's assume that returns a...

Advanced CSV Converter v3.25 released Friday, September 23rd, 2011 at 04h39 HiBase Group has released version 3.25 of CSV Converter. Advanced CSV Converter allows convert csv files to excel, xml, sql, dbf, html, fixed width text and other formats from GUI or command line. You can select columns and set filter. Version 3.25 improves batch conversion and includes many new features and enhancements .

Steven Black Speaking at Southwest Fox 2011 Wednesday, September 21st, 2011 at 11h06 Geek Gatherings is thrilled to announce the addition of Steven Black to the speaker lineup. Steve's sessions are Looking Back: Techniques I'm Glad we Used and Niche Marketing for VFP Developers, Revisited. We're looking forward to seeing you all in Arizona next month.

Does Visual FoxPro run on Windows 8? Wednesday, September 14th, 2011 at 15h24 Want to know if Visual FoxPro 9 will install and run on Windows 8? Sure, all the new developer stuff in Windows 8 look fun, but the world just wouldn't be the same if the greatest programming language ever couldn't play along. Let's see if Windows 8 can host up a little Metro tile for our Visual FoxPro...

Shell MegaPack ActiveX and .Net 2012 released Wednesday, September 14th, 2011 at 07h06 LogicNP Software has released Shell MegaPack ActiveX and .Net 2012 which brings total Windows Explorer-like file & folder browser UI functionality to your forms and dialogs in just a couple of seconds. The UI controls can be put right inside your own form or dialog to provide a standard user-friendly look to your application. Consisting of a folder tree control, a file & folder list control and a drive-selection control, it completely mimics the Windows Explorer UI including Thumbnail View, Deta...

New Crystal Reports Alternative Puts Reporting into the Hands of the End-user Tuesday, September 13th, 2011 at 14h28 Crystal Reports by SAP BusinessObjects is one of the most popular and widely used reporting solutions in the world. Yet why are so many people frustrated with it? What do others say about Stonefield Query? “Despite my past affair with Crystal Reports, I have to report that I’ve thrown over my loyalty to Stonefield Query. The simplicity and depth of the program make it easy for me to recommend. “ Doug Wolf, Author Crystal Reports for Dummies

New Offer for Southwest Fox 2011 Monday, September 12th, 2011 at 12h43 Alpha Software is offering a free full copy of Alpha Five Developer to every attendee of Southwest Fox 2011, a $349 value. Alpha Five allows you to rapidly develop both web and desktop database applications. Alpha Software is exhibiting at this year's Southwest Fox, so you'll have a chance to meet and talk with them about their product. For more information on Alpha Five, please see their web site: http://www.alphasoftware.com/.