Shell MegaPack.WPF 2010 released [March 4, 2010 04:08] LogicNP Software has released Shell MegaPack.WPF 2010 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, Detail View, Grou...
Automated Web Applications IDE released with $300,000 savings [March 2, 2010 11:26] Automato is an automated environment (IDE) solution for developing web systems using the DDD (Domain-Driven Development) methodology which was built around the Visual WebGui platform. "Before Visual WebGui we have tried many others AJAX technologies but only Visual WebGui turned out to enable the creation of complex applications with a zero learning curve. If you know Windows Forms, you know how to develop with Visual WebGui," said Alexnaldo Santos.
Southwest Fox 2010: Call for Speakers [February 26, 2010 15:47] Southwest Fox 2010 will once again be held in Mesa, AZ in October at the Arizona Golf Resort. Geek Gatherings has issued a call for speakers. Those interested in speaking at Southwest Fox should submit a proposal by March 15. See http://www.swfox.net for details.
Advanced XLS Converter v1.45 [February 25, 2010 15:09] Convert xls files (excel) to DBF, CSV, XML, HTML files and SQL scripts, visually build advanced date filtering rules. And not only single files, it will handle bunches of XLS files at the same time. Supports command line. Advanced XLS Converter does not require any external drivers to connect to a excel tables.
Swiss telecom provider saves 25% on development cost with Visual WebGui-built web-based HR system [February 23, 2010 14:42]The leading telecom company needed an application to manage the skill sets of employees to ensure that the employee with the right skill set was chosen to support and service specific customers. Until now, the employee's skills were documented in Excel spreadsheets and required a lot of tedious maintenance; this became more taxing as the number of employees grew. With 500 employees in the database, a solution was sought to provide an alternative, with an objective that would allow managers to si...
Healthcare Logistics to Hospitality Services [February 19, 2010 14:04]February 2010 (Winnipeg) DBI Technologies Inc., the development community's award winning provider of scheduling component software is pleased to announce the release of Solutions Schedule for COM version Ten. This new release provides Windows application developers with advanced asset management and multi resource scheduling component software. This edition introduces further developer flexibility offering User Drawn Time Bars, new pin point navigation incorporating X and Y coordinate hit te...
Shell MegaPack.Net 2010 released. [February 18, 2010 05:42]LogicNP Software has released Shell MegaPack.Net 2010 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, Detail View, Grou...
CryptoLicensing For ActiveX 2010 released [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 platform further enhances its SDK with the integration of jQuery in its new 6.4 versio [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)...
Crypto Obfuscator For .Net 2010 released [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 [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...
CryptoLicensing For .Net 2010 released. [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...
Personalities of the year for 2009 announced [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.
Nominate the Universal Thread Personality of the Year 2009 [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.
MSDN Webcast: Visual Basic 6 Simplicity and Intensive AJAX Richness for the Web and Cloud [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...
First Cloud Application Platform to Migrate Legacy to the Cloud at a "button-push" revealed [November 18, 2009 12:33]Due to Visual WebGui cloud application platform, developers can now deploy their applications to Windows Azure with the click of a button and no re-writes or new programming skills needed. “now we can quickly achieve what, a year ago, would have taken more people, more money, and a lot more time. It’s going to open up applications of sorts we’ve never seen before.” The ease of using Visual WebGui was a key benefit. Noted Naylor, Advanced Telemetry CTO, “There was no learning curve with Visu...
Advanced XLS Converter v1.10 [November 17, 2009 11:33]Convert excel files to any database format. Advanced XLS Converter allows you convert excel (xls) files to DBF, CSV, SQL, HTML from GUI or command line. The program does not require Microsoft Excel. Prior to conversion, you can preview file, sort data by columns and use filters.
DBF Recovery v2.65 [November 12, 2009 10:34]Quickly recovery corrupted dbf files with dbf repair tool from GUI or command line. The new release adds an ability to pack records after recovery, improved support for Windows 7. Multiple DBF files can be conveniently fixed in batch mode. Supports all dbf file formats.
Win $10,000 for writing an application with fewer lines of code [November 9, 2009 15:05]In the first code challenge of its kind, Visual WebGui is offering a $10,000 and giving away prizes valued at thousands of dollars in their call to developers to be the first to submit a Webmail application written by another framework with fewer lines of code. Visual WebGui web/cloud platform's productivity is featured via the "Project Webmail", which is an Outlook-like web application with desktop responsiveness & performance & functionalities that was developed by a single developer in onl...
IPhone Boot Camp for .NET developpers Montreal Nov. 23-24 [October 27, 2009 01:23]This boot camp-style class leverages your knowledge of .NET to get you up to speed quickly developing applications for the iPhone. In just 2 days you will learn all the basics you need to create your first iPhone application. Your enterprise can turn this 2 day workshop into a huge opportunity to be competitive in this fast-moving, lucrative market. Kevin McNeish, a .NET MVP and certified Apple iPhone Developer, helps you drastically cut the learning curve for iPhone application development so y...
Dates for Southwest Fox 2010 Announced [October 27, 2009 01:22]At the closing session for Southwest Fox 2009, Geek Gatherings announced the dates for Southwest Fox 2010: October 14-17, 2010. Location will be announced at a later date. Planning for next year’s conference started before Southwest Fox 2009 had even commenced.
PEM Editor Version 5 released on VFP [October 12, 2009 12:17]Another wonderful update to the PEM Editor tool has been released on VFPx. New version 5 features include: "Change Parent Class" of an object right in the form/class, "Copy/Paste" properties/values and methods/code, "Compare with Parent Class", additional Filters have been added for property/method grid, enchancements to "View Parent Code" to work with Document View, display class and class lib in Treeview, and more... See link above or complete list uf updates.
Studio Controls for .NET v1.1 Released to Market [October 8, 2009 17:22]October 6, 2009 (Winnipeg, mb) – DBI Technologies Inc., the development community’s seven-time award winning provider of interface design and scheduling component software is pleased to announce the release of Studio Controls for .NET v1.1. Studio Controls for .NET now includes dbiTips a stylish communication medium for Smart Client and Windows Forms applications for creative presentation of data, application details, points of navigation and much more. All without compromising an organizatio...
DBF Viewer 2000 v3.1 released [September 28, 2009 17:51]DBF Viewer 2000 is the ultimate .dbf viewing application for database administrators. Version 3.1 features Excel (.xls) file import and improved export dbf to xls format. The database content can also be exported to SQL scripts for MS SQL, MySQL, Oracle.
SQLTeach special event: BI Boot Camp Oct. 15-16,2009 in Toronto [September 21, 2009 23:20]After doing this popular BI Booth Camp in Vancouver, Montreal and Ottawa we are now doing it in Toronto (Oct. 15,16) at the Regency HYATT. Business Intelligence is one of the top most IT priorities and is increasingly pervasive within organizations large and small. Business Intelligence touches many aspects of our daily lives, from enhancing our online and retail shopping experience to the healthcare we receive. BI also impacts the quality of decisions that business leaders make. This 2 days (Oc...
Crypto Obfuscator For .Net 2009 released [September 14, 2009 15:14]Crypto Obfuscator For .Net 2009 provides advanced code protection, obfuscation and optimization for your .Net assemblies. Crypto Obfuscator combines powerful techniques such as symbol renaming, control flow obfuscation, resource and assembly encryption and decompiler & disassembler protection to provide the very best protection to your .Net code against reverse-engineering. Additionally its metadata reduction, assembly & resource compression and dependency embedding functionality simplifies and ...
Crash Course to Web Development for FoxPro and Web Connection Developers [September 14, 2009 15:14]This course is an introduction to .NET Web Development for FoxPro developers with some focus on similarities and differences familiar to West Wind Web Connection developers. This 3 day event starts with a short introduction to .NET and C# language features and then dives into a pragmatic presentation of how to build a Web Application with ASP.NET. Primary focus will be on ASP.NET Web Forms although we will also discuss the alternate MVC platform and its similarities to class Web Connection templ...
Southwest Fox Recession Buster Deals [September 11, 2009 09:41]Due to the condition of the global economy, we're seeing a drop in registrations this year. So we have a couple of special "recession buster" deals we hope will encourage a few more people to sign up for the best Visual FoxPro conference in North America. See http://www.swfox.net/register.aspx for details.
Southwest Fox 2009 Early-Bird Deadline Next Week [August 25, 2009 15:41]Southwest Fox is only seven weeks away. If you haven’t registered yet, be sure to do so before September 1 to save $50 on your registration fee. If you’ve been to Southwest Fox before, you know what a great training and networking opportunity it is. If you haven’t, read what attendees from past years have said on the Testimonals page.
The Fox Show - Southwest Fox 2009 Organization Interview [August 22, 2009 18:28]FoxShow #62: Southwest Fox 2009 Organization Interview - An interview with Tamar Granor, Doug Hennig and Rick Schummer regarding Southwest Fox 2009, coming up in October in Mesa, Arizona. Discussions range from choice of sessions, VFPX, new speakers and sponsors and the state of FoxPro development. Enjoy!
PEM Editor 4.10 released on VFPx / CodePlex [August 17, 2009 19:04]From Codeplex.com: "2009-08-16 - An update to PEM Editor has been released on the VFPx / Codeplex site... Lots of new goodies, including speed enhancements on the Document Treeview, class name and lib shown for each control, new MemberData functions, FoxCode back at install, and much more, as well a few minor bugs fixes."
EZShellExtensionsMFC 2009 released [July 17, 2009 11:29]EZShellExtensionsMFC 2009 brings fast and painless development in MFC, ATL and C++ of any kind of Windows shell extensions including context menu extensions, property sheet extensions, infotip extensions, thumbnail extensions, "Send To" extensions, icon extensions, overlay icon extensions, drag-drop extensions, disk cleanup extensions, background menu extensions, drop extensions, Active Directory extensions, Taskbar bands and IE toolbands and explorer bars and browser helper objects. EZShellExte...
Free software for all Southwest Fox attendees [July 15, 2009 03:00]KnowItAll, LLC is generously providing a free copy of KnowItAll, document and knowledge management software, to all Southwest Fox 2009 attendees. KnowItAll rapidly provides answers and solutions to people who have information needs and access rights by simply using key word searches. See http://www.knowitall.biz for information.
Google OS lives (and it's coming to a netbook near you) [July 8, 2009 09:05]From ArsTechnica: "Two separate sources—one inside the company and one outside it—have confirmed to Ars tonight that Google plans to launch an operating system built in some fashion around its new web browser, Chrome. One source says that the new OS will be launched soon, perhaps as early as tomorrow. Tentatively called "Google Chrome OS," the project appears targeted at netbooks."
Google is already working with PC makers on new Chrome OS [July 8, 2009 09:05]From ComputerWorld: "Google plans to announce within the next day or so the names of PC makers in Taiwan and China that have already signed on to work with its new Chrome operating system, a spokeswoman said Wednesday. The new Chrome OS will compete against Microsoft Windows in netbooks, laptop computers and desktops. Google is developing the Linux-based operating system for heavy Internet users, and it will begin appearing in netbooks in the second half of 2010, the company said in a blog posti...
EZShellExtensions.Net 2009 released [July 3, 2009 16:36]EZShellExtensions.Net 2009 enables rapid development of Windows shell extensions to .Net. Develop context menu extensions, property sheet extensions, infotip extensions, thumbnail extensions, "Send To" extensions, icon extensions, overlay icon extensions, drag-drop extensions, disk cleanup extensions, background menu extensions, drop extensions, etc as well as Active Directory extensions and IE toolbands and horizontal/vertical explorer bars. EZShellExtensions.Net has Visual Studio project integ...
Southwest Fox 2009 Early-Bird Deadline [June 29, 2009 15:58]Your opportunity to save big on registration for Southwest Fox ends soon. Super-saver registration offers $125 off the price of the conference, and gives you one free half-day pre-conference session, for total savings of $224. But hurry, because the super-saver offer expires on July 1.
Final report of DevCon Praha is now available [June 27, 2009 14:22]Another year of the traditional DevCon event in Prague has ended. The organizers repeated the success from the last year by carefully mixing the Visual FoxPro and SQL server sessions, making it again a great event for everyone. Read more about it from the official coverage of the event.
Visual FoxPro DevCon 2009 report has started [June 23, 2009 20:14]The Visual FoxPro DevCon 2009 conference in Prague is being held during these days. The official coverage is hosted, once again, on the Universal Thread. Jan Vít, and Karel Koliš are onsite to report on the event. The first version of the report covers the first day as well as 43 pictures.
West Wind Web Connection 5.43 released [June 23, 2009 15:07]From West Wind Technologies: We've just released an update to West Wind Web Connection 5.43. This update is a maintenance release that fixes a few issues that have been reported and provides a handful of small improvements. You can download the latest version from the site.
EZNamespaceExtensionsMFC 2009 released [June 20, 2009 13:01]Develop namespace extensions fast and painlessly with EZNamespaceExtensionsMFC. Adding Windows Explorer and File Open/Save dialog integration to document management or similar software is now easy using namespace extensions developed with EZNamespaceExtensionsMFC 2009. Concentrate on writing the functionality of the namespace extension and not worry about the hundred things that are necessary to integrate the namespace extension seamlessly into Windows Explorer and File Open/Save Dialogs. Docum...
Exceed announces a major update for Xceed DataGrid for WPF Professional Edition [June 18, 2009 17:55]Xceed is proud to announce a major update to Xceed DataGrid for WPF Professional Edition, as well as a new Standard Edition. There's also news on important updates to the Zip components. The datagrid is not only one of the most important controls used in many applications, but also one of the most complicated to build and therefore difficult to get right. Read the June 2009 Xceed newsletter for details.
Add Silverlight - style presentations quickly with Solutions Schedule for COM [June 18, 2009 10:19]DBI Technologies Inc. is pleased to announce the release of Solutions Schedule for COM (v9.0). This new release provides Microsoft Windows application developers with a complete asset management and multi resource scheduling program in a single component software solution. Solutions Schedule for COM incorporates the latest in User Interface (UI) presentations and design features. DBI's Scheduling component software is found in commercial enterprise software supporting healthcare to consumer pro...
Microsoft's Windows 7-to-XP downgrade plan a 'real mess,' says analyst [June 16, 2009 20:51]From ComputerWorld: "As expected, Microsoft will let computer makers sell PCs with the aged Windows XP for six months after it releases Windows 7, a move that will confuse companies and make it tougher for them to manage their licensing, an analyst said today. A slide from a Microsoft PowerPoint presentation that Computerworld has seen shows that the company plans to cut off OEMs' XP downgrade rights six months after Windows 7 debuts, limiting computer makers' moves after that to offering Vista-...
Google considers request to boost privacy [June 16, 2009 20:51]From CNet: "More than three dozen security and privacy advocates and researchers are asking Google to offer better data protection for users of Gmail and other Google apps and Google said on Tuesday that it is considering doing that, if it doesn't slow down the apps too much. You may not know this but you can set Gmail to encrypt your session data by default to protect it from being sniffed over the network."
Will touchscreen Windows 7 netbooks be hot or not? [June 16, 2009 20:51]From ZDNet: "As I’ve noted here before, I am not among the true believers who are convinced that adding multi-touch support to Windows 7 PCs is going to spur sales. Yes, it might look cool to be able to touch a screen saver and see a simulated stream ripple. Or to use afinger to navigate a Virtual Earth globe/map. But the downside of fingerprints on my screen outweigh any benefits of touch applications I’ve seen or read about to date."
DBI Technologies releases Studio Controls for COM [June 16, 2009 20:49]From DBI Tech: "DBI Technologies Inc., the development community’s award winning provider of interface design and scheduling component software is pleased to announce the release of Studio Controls for COM. This new release provides traditional application developers with an advancing set of interface design and appointment scheduling components. “There are so many commercial applications in the market place developed in traditional IDE’s, and in these economic times, many of these organization...
FileView ActiveX Control 2009 released. [June 16, 2009 20:47]From SSWare: "FileView ActiveX Control 2009 brings a drop-in Windows Explorer-like file and folder browsing UI component to your application. It is a perfect replacement for the plain, inflexible, modal APIs which UI developers are currently limited to. It offers complete support for Thumbnail, Details and GroupView, AutoUpdate, dragdrop, icons, contextmenus, non-filesystem items, default key-handling, infotips and renaming. It features powerful behavior control and customization functionality t...
EZNamespaceExtensions.Net 2009 released [June 16, 2009 20:45]From SSWare: "Add Windows Explorer and File Open/Save dialog integration to document management or similar software using namespace extensions developed with EZNamespaceExtensions.Net v2009. With EZNamespaceExtensions, a development team can concentrate on writing the functionality of the namespace extension and not worry about the hundred things that are necessary to integrate the namespace extension seamlessly into Windows Explorer and File Open/Save Dialogs."
European regulators, Opera weigh in on Microsoft's Windows 7 E plan [June 16, 2009 20:38]From ZDNet: "At the end of the day Microsoft acknowledged its plan to ship a browser-less version of Windows 7 in the European Union to attempt to appease antitrust regulators, those same regulators and Opera Software weighed in on Redmond’s plan. Neither the European regulators nor Opera, the company which originally filed the antitrust case over browser-bundling against Microsoft in 2007, is completely keen on Microsoft’s proposed self-inflicted remedy. But the European Commission (EC) did lik...
