.NET 4 for VFP Developers On-Line Training Aug 9-11, 2010 [July 29, 2010 10:59]Oak Leaf Enterprises announces the early bird special for our latest .NET 4 for VFP Developers ON-LINE Training Class, August 9-11, 2010, 11am-5pm Eastern has been extended to August 2, 2010. This live, online training class has been completely updated to include information on the new Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4.0 technologies such as the Microsoft Entity Framework 2, and Silverlight 4. We are now using GoToMeeting's Voice-Over-IP technology so there is no longer a long-distance phone call ch...
With Visual WebGui 6.4 RC0 version, Gizmox brings its vision of solving data-intensive Ajax web deve [July 25, 2010 06:44]The new version is now available for download in free open source Express format or in Professional open source trial version. Since its inception in 2007, Gizmox has been working towards the release of its fully featured Visual WebGui (VWG) version. Up until this release of 6.4 Gizmox has released 6 major versions and with this version Gizmox is delivering on the VWG promise to enable a full cycle of rapid development of enterprise level data-intensive Ajax application.
DevTeach is announcing a Windows Phone 7 Bootcamp in 4 cities [July 19, 2010 21:00]The next big application market will be on mobile devices and Microsoft Windows Phone 7 is about to join the game. Microsoft’s new platform is an opportunity for early adopters to be among the first to make money and extend their reach in this new and exciting mobile market place opening by fall this year. .NET developers who want to take advantage of this opportunity will need to quickly get to grips with many aspects of the new platform. DevTeach has teamed up with one of the best in Microsoft...
Stonefield Query 4.0 Released [July 13, 2010 17:08]Stonefield Query version 4.0 was released on July 13, 2010. This version has tons of new features, including output to Microsoft Excel Pivot Tables, support for "application views", the new Stonefield Query Studio, and a relationship editor for reports. See the Stonefield Query blog (http://blog.stonefieldquery.com/2010/07/stonefield-query-sdk-40.html) for details.
Visual Studio 2010 Ecosystem Series: Copy and Paste Code for Client/Server (WinForms) to Web or Clou [July 8, 2010 08:23]The Web, Cloud and SaaS models are changing the computing world forever, and us, the developers will have to adjust and serve this trend. One of the biggest challenges is moving software assets that were developed for desktop architecture to the new deployment models. Just imagine that you could Copy/Paste your .NET code into a development framework , do some minor adjustments into multi users environment, decide whether you want to retain your desktop user interface (it could be ported 1:1 ) ...
Xceed's June 2010 Newsletter [June 30, 2010 13:55]Here at Xceed we are counting down the days until we can release our highly anticipated Silverlight datagrid. As usual, our take on components is anything but the usual. In fact, we’ve managed to make Xceed DataGrid for Silverlight fast where other Silverlight datagrids are slow: with remote data located on the Internet! Read the June 2010 Xceed newsletter for details on this soon-to-be-released product—Q3 2010—and more.
Southwest Fox 2010 Early-Bird Deadline Next Week [June 24, 2010 14:44]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. In addition, you'll be eligible for drawings of three $150 scholarships, a copy of Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate with MSDN (a $11,899 value), and a license of Stonefield Query SDK (a $6,000 value). But hurry, because the super-saver offer expires on July 1.
Southwest Fox 2010 News [June 24, 2010 14:42]Listen to Andrew MacNeill interview Rick Schummer, Tamar Granor, and Doug Hennig about Southwest Fox 2010 on the FoxShow #65. Thanks to the generosity of the VFP community, we have enough money to bring two developers to Southwest Fox as 2010 Ceil Silver Ambassadors. Geek Gatherings is pleased to announce that César Chalom and Bernard Bout have been selected as the ambassadors for Brazil and Australia, respectively.
.NET for VFP Developers On-Line Training [June 11, 2010 00:03]Oakleafsd is teaching another on-line .NET for VFP Developers training class August 9-11, 2010 from 11am-5pm Eastern each day. This class has been completely updated for Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4.0. For more information, check out our web site (www.oakleafsd.com) and click on the Training button on our home page.
Gizmox Reveals VWG Sites for XAML programming [June 10, 2010 10:24]Gizmox the developer of the Visual WebGui web/cloud applications platform adds an alternative way to develop Visual WebGui (VWG) applications using XAML and 'on demand' compilation instead of Form based development paradigm. The new declarative programming which will be named VWG Sites facilitates the transition into VWG for web developers who missed the VB6 like development paradigm and use only markup declarative paradigms. VWG Sites will also be the foundation of the VWG IDE in the Cloud. It...
Maritime Developer Conference to be held in Moncton [June 8, 2010 13:11]The Maritime Developer Conference is a half-day event happening in Moncton, NB on Friday, June 18. Organized in conjunction with Maritimes Java User Group, DevEast Halifax .NET User Group, DevEast Moncton .NET User Group and Fredericton.NET User Group, the conference will offer great content packed into 5 hours. The conference is sponsored by CareerTown.
Southwest Fox 2010 [June 7, 2010 18:18]The seventh annual Southwest Fox conference will be held October 14-17, 2010 at the Arizona Golf Resort and Conference Center. Southwest Fox includes a terrific selection of sessions from great presenters. Each of the 24 regular conference topics is offered twice and the conference materials include a white paper for each, so you can learn about the topics you can't fit into your schedule. There are three sessions to choose from in each of the regular conference slots, so you'll always be able...
Crypto Obfuscator For .Net 2010 R2 released [June 7, 2010 01:07]LogicNP Software is pleased to announce the release of Crypto Obfuscator For .Net 2010 R2 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 to your .Net code against reverse-engineering. Additionally its metadata reduction, assembly & resource compression and dependency embedding functionality simplifies and reduces the deployme...
Explore the new extended ListView and Win Prizes [June 1, 2010 13:12]Gizmox is announcing a ListView Challenge where developers can participate by creating and submitting their own implementations of the new extended ListView. The new extended ListView Control in Visual WebGui 6.4 allows new capabilities and possible usages as can be seen by the demo created by VWG community member (watch demo) who also said that "its quite amazing what you can do with it. It opens a lot of new ways to present data in a better and more userfriendly way."
ShellObjects.Net 2010 released [May 21, 2010 06:23]ShellObjects.Net 2010 is a set of components which allow your applications to create quick-launch like appbars with drag-docking and autohide functionality [ShellAppBar], display MSN/Office2003 style popups [ShellPopupNotification], create back-forward navigating wizards [Wizard], display Explorer-like progress dialogs [ShellProgressDialog], monitor system idle time [SystemIdleTimer], perform multiple file/folder operations with Explorer-like progress dialog support [ShellFileOperation], add aut...
The first African DevCon will be held from May 13 to 15 [May 14, 2010 06:46]The first African DevCon will be held from May 13 to 15, in Nouakchott, Mauritanie. The conference is held by the AtoutFox, a non lucrative association with the objective to promote Visual FoxPro as well as its related tools and applications. This 3-day conference will be held at the Atlantic hotel near the Olympic Stadium.
GalaxyKey Launches Web-enabling Platform for Legacy Applications [May 13, 2010 14:40]GalaxyKey from Northern Lights Software enables virtually any Windows program to run in the cloud through a browser. Your programs install without modifications; the look and feel of your programs do not change. Zero re-writing of your applications, no retraining for your users. GalaxyKey brings legacy apps effortlessly to the web today.
Extended MessageBox .NET Assembly [May 9, 2010 12:15]Gives .NET application control over a variety of MessageBox dialog settings. That includes adjusting initial position and size of the dialog, selecting message font and font color, filling dialog background with solid colors or bitmap files, modifying button captions & fonts, loading dialog icons from external files, accepting text input, opening web pages, dialog timeout and more. Once configured, the extended features are persistent through application's session affecting each regular ...
PEM Editor 6 Beta 1 released on VFPX [May 6, 2010 02:37]PEM Editor is a complete replacement for the native VFP dialogs to add, edit and maintain properties, events, and methods. Version 6 includes new IDE Tools... Go To Definition to quickly navigate method code, Extract To Method, Enhanced Beautify to cleanup white space. New menus for Most Recently Used forms, classes, projects. And much more! A must have tool for VFP.
West Wind Web Connection 5.52 released [May 5, 2010 17:28]We've just released an update for West Wind Web Connection 5.52. This update is a maintenance release that fixes a few issues that have been reported and provides a handful of improvements. The major improvements are explicit support for Visual Studio 2010 configuration (for the Web Control Framework) and updated jQuery libraries to the latest versions.
Xceed's May 2010 Newsletter [May 5, 2010 17:28]Xceed is continuing its long-standing support of Microsoft's software development technologies by releasing versions of its products that are built with .NET 4 for Visual Studio 2010. Our WPF themes are now also the only ones on the market to provide styles for Microsoft's datagrid and datepicker controls. Read the May 2010 Xceed newsletter for details on this and more.
Southwest Fox 2010 News [May 4, 2010 13:36]Speakers and sessions for Southwest Fox 2010 have been announced. New this year is a free one-day "VFP to Silverlight" workshop being held the day after Southwest Fox ends (Monday, October 18). Southwest Fox platinum sponsor Tomorrow's Solutions, LLC is offering a scholarship of $150 for one new attendee. Also, White Light Computing has changed their scholarship to cover TWO attendees this year. For more details, see http://www.swfox.net.
MS Excel®-based Performance Reviews Transformed into Web Application for Performance Management [May 2, 2010 03:13]HR TMS provides enterprise talent management solutions for healthcare, retail and corporate customers, focusing on performance management, compensation management and succession planning. As the competency of nurses and other healthcare workers is critical, the government, via the Joint Commission (JCAHO), tightly monitors their performances. On a regular basis, accredited healthcare organizations are required to review employee performance using a complex set of position dependent job descr...
FileView.WPF Control 2010 released [April 29, 2010 05:58]LogicNP Software has released FileView.WPF Control 2010 which brings a drop-in Windows Explorer file and folder browsing functionality to your app. This UI component is a perfect replacement for the plain, inflexible, modal APIs which 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 customizati...
FileView.Net Control 2010 released [April 20, 2010 01:50]LogicNP Software has released FileView.Net Control 2010 which brings a drop-in Windows Explorer file and folder browsing functionality to your app. This UI component is a perfect replacement for the plain, inflexible, modal APIs which 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 customizati...
Two Extensive Training Classes for VFP Developers [April 12, 2010 15:19]EPS Software will be holding two comprehensive classes, specifically for Visual FoxPro developers who wish to utilize the latest Microsoft .NET technologies. The training class will be held at the EPS Offices in Houston, Texas as well as online via GoToMeeting. The first class (May 3 - 5, 2010) will be .NET Training for VFP Developers. The second class (May 6 & 7, 2010) will be Converting VFP Applications to .NET
No Developer Will Be Left Behind with Newly Released Visual WebGui 6.4 Beta [April 12, 2010 07:10]SME’s now find themselves on the same playing field as large companies in developing and migrating web and cloud applications Tel Aviv, April 6 - Gizmox, the developer of the Visual WebGui web/cloud applications platform, launched Visual WebGui 6.4 Beta 2, it’s fully fledged version which, for the first time, enables every developer to develop complex business web & cloud applications without discriminating against less experienced developers or requiring access to deep pockets. The release o...
FolderView.Net Control 2010 released. [April 9, 2010 04:13]LogicNP Software is pleased to announce the release of FolderView.Net 2010 which brings drop-in Windows-Explorer-like folder browser functionality to your Windows Forms and WPF 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 customizat...
2010 FoxPro Lifetime Achievement Award Committee [April 8, 2010 16:16]The FoxPro Lifetime Achievement Award honors those individuals who have contributed a great deal to the FoxPro community over the years. See http://fox.wikis.com/wc.dll?Wiki~FoxProCommunityLifetimeAchievementAward~VFP for previous award recipients. If you wish to be considered for inclusion on the committee to select the 2010 recipient, please email Doug Hennig (dhennig@stonefield.com) by April 30, 2010.
Xceed's April 2010 Newsletter [April 8, 2010 16:13]Xceed is proud to announce a major update to most of our products, including Xceed DataGrid for WPF Professional Edition, Xceed Professional Themes for WPF, and much more. We are also introducing Xceed DataGrid for WPF UX Edition and two great new themes (Xceed Windows 7 Theme for WPF and Xceed Live Explorer Theme for WPF).
TechEd 2010 scheduled for June 7-10 in New Orleans [April 7, 2010 15:11]The TechEd 2010 conference is scheduled for June 7-10 in New Orleans. TechEd is the event for developers & IT professionals that want to get ahead and stay ahead. Return to the office with cutting-edge insights and expertise that will make life easier for you (and everyone else) at work. Immerse yourself in hundreds of IT learning opportunities and get your questions answered by renowned technology experts.
Visual Studio 2010 - Virtual Launch Event at CodeProject.com [April 2, 2010 12:38]Unable to attend the Launch event for VS2010?? Never fear, the CodeProject is coming to the rescue with a virtual launch event. Join us The Code Project Tech Summit to experience the Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 launch alongside the Visual Studio team. At this virtual event you can explore, network, and learn from the experts on the latest and greatest version of Microsoft Visual Studio
.Net Rocks Visual Studio 2010 Road Trip coming to Atlanta [March 30, 2010 18:25].Net Rocks Visual Studio 2010 Road Trip coming to Atlanta Friday May 7th, 2010. Carl and Richard are loading up the DotNetMobile (a 30 foot RV) and driving to your town again to show off the latest and greatest in Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4.0! And to make the night even more fun, we’re going to bring a mystery rock star from the Visual Studio world to the event and interview them for a special .NET Rocks Road Trip show series.
Free webcast - Techniques in Advanced .NET Debugging - April [March 30, 2010 18:25]Free webcast - Techniques in Advanced .NET Debugging with John Robbins. Tuesday, April 13, 2010 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM Eastern Time (US & Canada). If you haven’t seen John speak before, you owe it to yourself to find a way to attend this event. Make sure to register! This is an in-person event. If this event is full, or you can't attend this event live, sign up for the Simulcast Webcast event. You'll be able to ask questions and interact with John throughout the event.
Universal Thread Widget available [March 29, 2010 19:32]The Universal Thread Widget is now available. You can install it on your Web site in similar ways such as Facebook, Amazon and other well known Web sites. The widget is customizable from your account setup which now contains a new section. Customization includes selection of the content, quantity, width, height, colors and other related settings in order to fully integrate it into your site look and feel.
DBF Viewer 2000 v3.25 released [March 17, 2010 10:43]DBF Viewer 2000 is a sophisticated and easy to use solution for viewing, editing and optimizing database files of the .dbf format. The software also enables you to delete duplicate records, run queries, sort and export dbf files into a variety of formats (SQL, Excel, CSV, HTML). Supports 64-bit platforms.
Shell MegaPack ActiveX 2010 released [March 15, 2010 05:34]LogicNP Software has released Shell MegaPack ActiveX 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, ...
Southwest Fox 2010: Call for Speakers Deadline Reminder [March 10, 2010 10:48]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.
Shell MegaPack.WPF 2010 released [March 4, 2010 03:06]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 10:42]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 12:45]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 08:45]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 04:26]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 13:48]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 02:46]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 05:44]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 10:27]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 03:18]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 22:35]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 04:31]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...
