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PEM Editor 5.10 -- Beyond the pretty face March 16, 2010 22:30
Los Angeles Visual FoxPro Developers Group
PEM Editor is a full replacement for the Property Window, "New Property," "New Method," its ancestor "Edit Property / Method," and "Document View." (for SCXs and VCXs). It has greatly expanded scope and features -- sorting, filtering, custom coloring, and full support for property editors with additional built-in editors. It uses a consistent user interface, with numerous context menus as appropriate, and comes with a complete CHM help file. A convenient re-packaging of existing tools is not...

Quibbles, Quirks, and Quickies March 11, 2010 18:00
Detroit Area Fox User Group
Detroit Area Fox User Group (DAFUG) presents: Quibbles, Quirks, and Quickies, by Rick Borup. Rick Borup is going to give us the "director's cut" of his "Quibbles, Quirks, and Quickies" session filled with tons of tricks and traps with Visual FoxPro. Things don't always work quite the way we expect them to. The quirky behavior of a function or control can be a common cause of those "What the Heck??" moments we all encounter from time to time. We may be tempted to quibble with VFP's behavior ...

Cloud Computing and GDIPLUSX library March 9, 2010 18:30
Chicago FoxPro User/Developer Group
Chicago FUDG's March meeting will feature 2 members - Tom Corrigan on Amazon Cloud computing and Jim Wiggins on using the VFPX graphics classes (GDIPLUSX) library. Here is the RSVP url click: http://bit.ly/aQnmD8 Do it now. See you then!

VFP Report Writer SP2 Updates February 16, 2010 22:30
Los Angeles Visual FoxPro Developers Group
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.

VFP and MySQL: Case Study for Remote Data February 11, 2010 18:00
Detroit Area Fox User Group
Detroit Area Fox User Group (DAFUG) presents: "VFP and MySQL: Case Study for Remote Data" 1) "VFP and MySQL: Case Study for Remote Data", by Rick Schummer For many years Visual FoxPro developers have found backend databases to be a compelling alternative to the DBF data store. There are many good reasons to move to a backend database. The business model of distributed locations and facilities is not uncommon. Because of the way Visual FoxPro caches tables and indexes, DBF data does not s...

Cancelled Due to Snow February 9, 2010 19:00
Philadelphia VFP User Group
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...

Snow Day / meeting cancelled February 9, 2010 18:30
Chicago FoxPro User/Developer Group
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.

Cool Tools, Tips and Tricks - 2 January 21, 2010 18:00
Detroit Area Fox User Group
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...

VFP Report Writer SP2 Updates Demonstration January 19, 2010 19:30
Los Angeles Visual FoxPro Developers Group
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.

Getting Your Head Around Business Objects January 12, 2010 19:00
Philadelphia VFP User Group
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.

GeneXus IDE demo at Chicago FUDG January 12, 2010 18:30
Chicago FoxPro User/Developer Group
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/...

Introduction To Drupal December 15, 2009 19:30
Los Angeles Visual FoxPro Developers Group
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...

Cool Tools, Tips and Tricks December 10, 2009 18:00
Detroit Area Fox User Group
Thursday, December 10, 2009 Detroit Area Fox User Group (DAFUG) presents: "Cool Tools, Tips and Tricks" 1) "Cool Tools, Tips and Tricks", by any and all members in attendance Found a particular tool (Visual FoxPro or not) that makes you life easier to do development or be more productive in your job? Take 5 to 15 minutes to plug your laptop into the projector and show it off and why you like it. A small sample of what you might see: * Frank Perez is going to show ClipMate * Andrew Ma...

Member presentations December 8, 2009 19:00
Philadelphia VFP User Group
This month will feature a collection of short member presentations. We'll start off with Bill Fitzgerald, who'll present a standalone desktop organized based on the hotlinked editbox that Craig Benson showed a while back, plus a solution for appending Excel 2007 files into DBFs. If you have one or more short items to present, let Bob Pierce (rpierce@smooth-on.com) know.

Member Presentations December 8, 2009 18:30
Chicago FoxPro User/Developer Group
Our holiday meeting will be a forum for members to show some of their work. Jim Wiggins will demonstrate a data driven technique for creating tree view controls. Carl Karsten says that his presentation will show 1. MySql-Workbench - GUI data modeling, 2. xml processing with Python http://github.com/CarlFK/veyepar/blob/master/dj/scripts/xmldemo.py and 3. Using Python to pre-process broken csv data so VFP can read it. Jeff Simon will demonstrate working with West Wind's HTML Hel...

Enhancing the Visual FoxPro IDE with VFPX Tools November 19, 2009 18:00
Detroit Area Fox User Group
Thursday, November 19, 2009 Detroit Area Fox User Group (DAFUG) presents a SWFox post-hersal: "Enhancing the Visual FoxPro IDE with VFPX Tools" by Rick Schummer 1) Nominations and ELECTIONS: All four positions are available: President (currently Zimmer), VP (open), Secretary and Treasurer (currently Schummer is both) Nominate any member for any position. Catch is, the person has to accept. If you cannot attend and want to be nominated please nominate yourself in advance. Vote takes p...

Real-Life Web Connection 5 Application - Geoff Bannoff November 18, 2009 19:00
Vancouver Foxpro User Group
VFUG Meeting: Wednesday, November 18, 2009 Topic: Real-Life Web Connection 5 Application - Geoff Bannoff Geoff will present portions of a production application using the new West Wind Web Connect 5 "Web control framework" controls: How to use most of the new controls which bind directly to data, and remember their state. Text boxes, check boxes, labels and literals, drop down lists, and radio buttons, date pickers etc. Web panels allow areas of a page (usually containing oth...

Crew Chief Pro Demonstration November 17, 2009 19:30
Los Angeles Visual FoxPro Developers Group
For 20 years I have designed software used to statistically analyze and predict the behavior of very powerful engines based on weather patterns, and track conditions. I sell very complex weather equipment that interface with my VFP application to constantly monitor every aspect of weather readings. The weather station includes a transmitter which I send out information to a Pager or Cell Phone that the driver or Crew Chief of the car would carry with them. I perform thousands of calculations eve...

Open Source Tools November 12, 2009 19:00
Philadelphia VFP User Group
Note special night--THURSDAY, November 12 Open Source is a phenomenal resource for high quality software that can easily be integrated into your work and make your life much easier. This session shows several tools you can use to make your business and software development life a pleasure. The session also demonstrates how some of these tools can be set up and work withiin your organization. Tools discussed include, but are not limited to: Subversion (and TortoiseSVN) MantisBT SugarC...

Advantage Database Server November 10, 2009 18:30
Chicago FoxPro User/Developer Group
We have a couple of representatives of Sybase coming to Chicago to demonstrate their Fox-friendly data server -- Advantage; An alternative to pricey backends with an easy conversion route. It should be a good time -- another milestone in a long history of tech twists and turns. From their promotional material at http://www.sybase.com/products/databasemanagement/advantagedatabaseserver: * Flexible data access via either native relational SQL or direct navigational database commands. * Opt...

Servoy 5.0 Demonstration October 20, 2009 19:30
Los Angeles Visual FoxPro Developers Group
"Question: How long would it take to build and deploy a cross-platform, client/server application AND a fully Ajax-driven web application from a single code base? Answer: 30 Seconds! See a live demonstration! Are you considering migrating your application to a modern platform? What would a modernized version of your application look like? Will it be browser-based or client-server? Will it deploy as a SaaS/Multi-Tenant product or On-Premise? Will you have to sacrifice the productivity and reli...

OktoberFUDG - Christof Wollenhaupt on ExcelPorting October 13, 2009 18:30
Chicago FoxPro User/Developer Group
Christof Wollenhaupt is world renowned as a Fox Pro Expert. We are lucky to have him at our October meeting. He will present his Southwest Fox session entitled Excelporting. We all know that the only place to keep data is a database. Surprisingly, 150% of our customers firmly believe that data has to be stored in Excel sheets. Ever since Excel XP (Excel 2000 with downloadable plugins) Excel supports XML files in XMLSS (XML Spreadsheet) format. That's almost a decade now! We cover how you...

October - Double Header - SWFox Rehearsals October 10, 2009 10:00
Grand Rapids Area FoxPro User Group (GRAFUG)
We have two great SWFox speakers coming to practice their sessions. Join us for a great day!! - Jody Meyer - Mike Feltman See the website for more information (www.grafug.com)

HTML and Lucene - Southwest Fox Doubleheader October 8, 2009 18:00
Detroit Area Fox User Group
Thursday, October 8, 2009 Detroit Area Fox User Group (DAFUG) presents a SWFox Doubleheader: "HTML for the Desktop" by Mike Feltman AND "Full Text Search using Lucene.NET" by Paul Mrozowski 1) "HTML for the Desktop" - Mike Feltman VFP is so powerful as a front-end development tool that it's extremely rare to find user interface items that VFP can't handle. Tools such as FoxCharts and the themed controls on VFPx are just a few of many testaments to VFP developers ability to creat...

Exploring eTechnologia’s .NET compiler for VFP September 15, 2009 19:30
Los Angeles Visual FoxPro Developers Group
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September - Double Header - SWFox Rehearsals September 12, 2009 10:00
Grand Rapids Area FoxPro User Group (GRAFUG)
Cathy Pountney is giving us back-to-back presentations of her SWFox sessions. - Making the Most of VFP 9 SP2 Reports (Part I) - Making the Most of VFP 9 SP2 Reports (Part II) For more details, see the website (www.grafug.com)

Introduction to Subversion and Tortoise SVN September 8, 2009 18:30
Philadelphia VFP User Group
Version control is a must for any application development platform yet many development shops still do not use a version control system. There are all sorts of excuses such as time, money or lack of team support. Once you adopt a version control system, your team will wonder how you ever lived without one. In this session, we take an in-depth, action packed look at using Subversion and Tortoise as a version control repository for FoxPro applications. Most FoxPro developers are cost conscious so ...

Rick Borup presents 'Quibbles, Quirks, and Quickies' September 8, 2009 18:30
Chicago FoxPro User/Developer Group
At the Fudg "back to school" meeting on September 8, expert presenter, Rick Borup will travel from Champaign to show us his "Quibbles, Quirks, and Quickies" session that he will also present at Southwest Fox 2009. Here's the session description: Things don't always work quite the way we expect them to. The quirky behavior of a function or control can be a common cause of those "What the Heck??" moments we all encounter from time to time. We may be tempted to quibble with VFP's behavior in these...

Special SWFox Rehearsal - Lansing, MI August 29, 2009 09:30
Grand Rapids Area FoxPro User Group (GRAFUG)
Six different SWFox speakers are coming together for a one-day rehearsal of six different SWFox sessions. The public is invited. See http://www.grafug.com/Southwest%20Fox%20Rehearsal.pdf for more information!!

An Introduction to the Drupal CMS August 18, 2009 19:30
Los Angeles Visual FoxPro Developers Group
Drupal is a widely used web content management system written in PHP. It is fundamentally a CMS software framework whose main purpose is to make building and managing a content rich website accessible to the masses. There are many other systems out there that acheive this purpose, and gracefully. So why would we want to use drupal? Find out the answer to these questions and more, August 18th at 7pm. We'll discuss the big picture overview of just what drupal is and why it's good for making and...

SWFox Practice - 'mini-conference' August 15, 2009 11:00
Chicago FoxPro User/Developer Group
Come to a dress rehearsal for the 2009 South West Fox Conference! We'll have 5 of the sessions: Cathy Pountney -- (2 part presentation) Get the most out of VFP reports One of VFP's best presenters will show a myriad of never-before-possible enhancements to the report writer. She'll explore the new interface and the Report Listener. Jody Meyer -- 1) Developing and extending the Fox Pro grid object. Make them data driven, customizeable, striking in appearance, and easy to do. 2) Exc...

Top Ten (or more) Reasons to Use the Toolbox August 11, 2009 19:00
Philadelphia VFP User Group
The VFP Toolbox is a terrific tool, but many VFP developers have never really used it. In this session, we'll look at why you should use this tool everyday. We will look at built-in capabilities like an easy way to drop controls into grid columns. We'll also see how to customize it for your development environment, including having each control you drop given an appropriate name. Finally, we'll explore some easy extensions that make the Toolbox even more useful, such as making it easy to store w...

SPECIAL MEETING: August - Double Header - SWFox Rehearsals August 8, 2009 10:00
Grand Rapids Area FoxPro User Group (GRAFUG)
We don't normally meet in August ... but this year we're holding a special DOUBLE-HEADER meeting so two SWFox speakers can practice their sessions! Rick Schummer - Enhancing the Visual FoxPro IDE with VFPX Tools and Jim Nelson - PEMEditor: Swiss Army Knife for the Forms Designer Meeting information can be found on our website (www.grafug.com). NOTE -- We are meeting at MAGI instead of our normal location.

FoxCharts - Great Looking, Modern Charts in Pure VFP Code July 21, 2009 19:30
Los Angeles Visual FoxPro Developers Group
FoxCharts creates good looking and modern charts in pure VFP, using NO ActiveX components. It provides for the creation of a number of horizontal and vertical charts as well as pie and donut charts. It takes full advantage of colors, using solid, gradient and hatch brushes, transparencies, 3D effects, and animations. There are customizable tool tips and full mouse behavior customization. It is easy to set up and easy to customize. The code is Open Source, benefiting from all the GdiPlusX draw...

SQL in Many Forms July 14, 2009 19:00
Philadelphia VFP User Group
SQL is the lingua franca of data. Introduced into FoxPro way back in 2.0, VFP developers have been using it in applications for years. With the growing popularity of using Client Server back ends, it is necessary to know the differences between the various favors of SQL you will encounter. The session concentrates on VFP, MySQL, and Microsoft SQL Server flavors of SQL. The group is providing a kosher deli dinner (beginning at 6:30 PM). Please email tamar@thegranors.com if you want to be inclu...

C# DotNet and SQL Server from a VFP perspective July 14, 2009 18:30
Chicago FoxPro User/Developer Group
Tom Corrigan had the dreaded Error Reading Drive C just before he was to present at the June Meeting. He will cover his topic at the regular meeting July 14. His talk: "How to set up a Windows Forms data editing solution using C# .Net and SQL Server from the perspective of a VFP programmer" - Database concepts: C# approach vs. VFP approach - Organizing the solution into projects - Implementing the MVC (ModelViewController) paradigm - Tips and tricks for keeping things simple ...

Maintaining Code That's Old Enough To Vote June 16, 2009 19:30
Los Angeles Visual FoxPro Developers Group
One of the good features of FoxPro is continuing support for legacy systems. Robin will speak from his experience in maintaining and even enhancing systems written in FoxPro.

Nothing but 'Net June 9, 2009 19:00
Philadelphia VFP User Group
Visual FoxPro can be a great tool for interacting with the Internet. This session will include many different ways to use VFP to send emails, download content, send files using FTP, publishing content, and run a VFP web server. All of the techniques use freely available tools that can easily be integrated into your applications with a minimum of effort. Those present will be eligible to win a 1-year MSDN Premium subscription, including Visual Studio Team System 2008 Team Suite. (The subscri...

Starters and Beginners - C#.NET & WinForms for VFPers June 9, 2009 18:30
Chicago FoxPro User/Developer Group
CFUDG's June meeting features our own Professor Tom Corrigan who will talk on "A C# Starter Kit for Windows Forms Database Programming". The focus is on setting up a Windows Forms data editing solution using C# .Net and SQL Server from the perspective of a VFP programmer. Topics include: - Database concepts: C# approach vs. VFP approach - Organizing the solution into projects - Implementing the MVC (ModelViewController) paradigm - Tips and tricks for keeping things simple All...

Swiss Army Knife for the Forms Designer -- the What and How May 19, 2009 19:30
Los Angeles Visual FoxPro Developers Group
PEM Editor is a complete tool, in adjunct with the Form and Class Designers, for adding, deleting, and renaming properties and methods, and setting or modifying their values or method code, Access and Assign methods, favorites, and visibility, and exploring parent code and object parentage. It is a full replacement for the Property Window, a full replacement for "New Property" and "New Method, a full replacement for its ancestor "Edit Property / Method", has its own "Method View" (much like "...

MadFox: e-Payments May 19, 2009 05:30
MadFox: Madison WI FoxPro Users Group
Yes, it's the 3rd Tuesday and that means MadFox! The meeting is at Salty Dog Solutions' HQ in beautiful downtown Madison, WI. The students are gone and we are in summer mode! Tonight's meeting will begin with our usual Q&A and member demonstrations. Stein Goering will present "e-Payments through common payment gateways using VFP/WestWind." If there's time after that I'll demonstrate the wonderful "QuickPDF Library" for manipulating PDF Documents via ActiveX. Lastly, we'll take a look ...

BullZip with VFP May 14, 2009 18:00
Detroit Area Fox User Group
Detroit Area Fox User Group (DAFUG) presents: "BullZip PDF driver with VFP Apps" By Jody Meyer of MAGI Thursday, May 14, 2009 - "BullZip PDF driver with VFP Apps" - Jody Meyer BullZip.com is a free ActiveX control PDF print driver on steroids. Like any ActiveX control, the VFP developer can control it's behavior simply by setting the control's properties. With BullZip, the developer can control a large number of things: * Where the PDF file is saved * Whether or not to ask for a...

Panel: Communication wth Clients May 12, 2009 18:30
Chicago FoxPro User/Developer Group
In May, we'll learn from three of our hard core members who will form a panel to show effective, Internet-based mechanisms for promoting yourself and keeping in touch with clients. Steve Munson -- on social networking with Twitter, My Space, and Face Book Jim Day -- on a Time and Billing tool Jim Wiggins -- on sharing project progress and expectations with your clients To reserve a perch in our new eagles nest meeting room at Tech Nexus, 200 South Wacker, Suite 1500, RSVP at http://tinyu...

Real World Advantage DB April 21, 2009 19:30
Los Angeles Visual FoxPro Developers Group
Converting an existing VFP program to run using the Advantage Database.

Marc Temkin on WPF April 14, 2009 18:30
Chicago FoxPro User/Developer Group
CFUDG's April meeting features Marc Temkin who will demonstrate the rich client features of the Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) that affect layout, controls, document presentation and computer graphics to create new successful applications using standard business PC hardware. Marc is an independent developer specializing in .NET applications and database solutions. He teaches programming at Columbia College in the Interactive Arts & Media program. He is also Vice Chair of the Chicago...

Project Explorer - Source Code Included April 9, 2009 18:00
Detroit Area Fox User Group
Detroit Area Fox User Group (DAFUG) presents: "Project Explorer - Source Code Included" By Dave Holder of Holden Data Systems Thursday, April 9, 2009 Tomorrow!!!! Sorry for the late notice. - "Project Explorer - Source Code Included" - Dave Holden Project Explorer is a soon-to-be public domain or VFPX replacement for VFP's native Project Manager. Since PX is designed to be extensible, we will cover both internal and external code samples. Focus is on exposing the design archit...

Cool VFP Tools March 17, 2009 19:30
Los Angeles Visual FoxPro Developers Group
Tonight's presentation will be an overview of cool VFP tools: eView and ViewEditor, third party tools to manage your views (I use both tools, come to the group and see why). We'll also explore HackCX, a tool to hack your VCX files (invaluable, IMO) and xCase, a data design tool for VFP and many other databases.

Data Driven Software Architecture March 12, 2009 17:00
Detroit Area Fox User Group
Detroit Area Fox User Group (DAFUG) presents: "Data Driven Software Architecture" By Jody Meyer of Manufacturing Action Group, Inc Thursday, March 12, 2009 Tomorrow!!!! Sorry for the late notice, last minute change in the planned topic. - "Data Driven Software Architecture" - Jody Meyer Jody is going to show you a little on how the WinMAGI system was put together. This application allows their customers to modify their own data dictionary, grid views, change process output, etc...

Member presentations March 10, 2009 19:00
Philadelphia VFP User Group
Several members will contribute to this month's meeting. Tim Saylor will present a calendar control and several other items. Tamar Granor will show the Control Renamer builder, which she recently contributed to VFPX. If time permits, Bob Pierce will follow up on the search utility he showed last month and show a GDI+ tool for rotating graphics.

Fox Geo - Using FoxPro and Google Maps with Java Script March 10, 2009 17:30
Chicago FoxPro User/Developer Group
Topic: Fox Geo -- using Fox Pro, Google Maps, and Java Script to build a site locator Internet app. Speaker: Brian Marquis. To get past building security, you need to send an RSVP before March 10 to Tech Nexus here: http://tinyurl.com/fudg310 Be there by 5:30pm on March 10, 2009 200 S. Wacker Drive, 15th floor. Conference Room C. The subject is fresh and interesting. The speaker is ready to turn on some lights and open some doors in your dusty brain.