Interacting with Internet Explorer July 20, 2010 22:30Los Angeles Visual FoxPro Developers Group In this session we will learn about how to Control Internet Explorer and manipulate web pages using COM.
Collections--Managing Data the Object-Oriented Way July 13, 2010 19:00Philadelphia VFP User GroupWhen the collection base class was added to VFP 8, it gave us the opportunity to make our applications look more like those in other object-oriented languages. Collections let us manage groups of related objects through a straightforward interface, and avoid the peculiarities of working with arrays in VFP. In this session, we'll cover the basics of using collections, the reasons why they're better than arrays, and show how they improve object models. We'll also consider the weaknesses of coll...
Access Programming July 13, 2010 18:30Chicago FoxPro User/Developer GroupWe made an offer to another brotherhood in the Federation of Data Workers: Chicago Access Users Group -- they have a very experienced speaker in Juan Soto and we are pleased that he will present to us. We will explore the joys and agonies of Access development, cover the basics, discuss proper function and subroutine calls, view some examples, briefly touch on SQL Server with Access and answer all of your Access. About the presenter: Juan Soto is the principal at IT Impact Inc, (AccessExper...
LA Fox 20th Anniversary Celebration! June 15, 2010 22:30Los Angeles Visual FoxPro Developers GroupCome on by to celebrate our 20 years of existence! We'll have food, fun, and good times as we recap a rich history of our user group. Add your memories or simply help us celebrate -- we look forward to your participation!
Introduction to Regular Expressions June 10, 2010 18:00Detroit Area Fox User GroupThursday, June 10, 2010 Detroit Area Fox User Group (DAFUG) presents: Introduction to Regular Expressions, by Dave Hanna This presentation provides an introduction to a powerful tool called "regular expressions". Regular expressions are available in many types of applications (e.g., editors, word processors and system tools), but their power is most fully exposed when used via a programming language. In this session Dave will: - Introduce the concept of regular expressions. - Exp...
Chicago FUDG meeting - 8 June 2010 June 8, 2010 18:30Chicago FoxPro User/Developer GroupOur June meeting will feature Bill Drew showing how to automate MapPoint from VFP. The application is thematic presentation of precinct election data. He will show how to interrogate the MapPoint Object model using the Object browser. Don't say you can't make it because his response will be -- "What do I have to draw a map for you?" Tom Hayward will follow up with an application which renders Google maps from a West Wind Web Connect Internet application. Other Geo Information offerings ...
Enhancements to VFP 9 SQL May 18, 2010 10:30Los Angeles Visual FoxPro Developers Group In tonight's session we'll review the enhancements to the VFP 9 SQL Language. The Select - SQL command (and other SQL commands) have been substatially enhanced in Visual FoxPro 9.0. I've worked with the VFP9 SQL Select for over five years. We'll go over the changes that I've found useful and productive in my work. Bonus Session: Servoy and Sybase Advantage for VFP Developers - Ken Levy In a special bonus session, Ken Levy will discuss and demo using both Servoy development tools...
Creating Gadgets in Windows Vista & Windows 7 May 13, 2010 18:00Detroit Area Fox User GroupThursday, May 13, 2010 Detroit Area Fox User Group (DAFUG) presents: Creating Gadgets in Windows Vista & Windows 7, by Paul Mrozowski of White Light Computing Desktop Gadgets, such as clocks and weather controls, are those cool little mini-apps you can add to your Windows desktop. Ever want to create your own but figured they were probably too complicated? We’ll take a quick tour of what is involved in creating and deploying our own custom gadgets – you’ll be surprised by how easy it is t...
Introduction to GDIPlusX May 11, 2010 19:00Philadelphia VFP User GroupGDIPlusX is a VFPX project that exposes GDI+ to VFP applications as a set of VFP class libraries. GDIPlusX makes it easy to add new graphical abilities to your applications, allowing you to provide a fresher and more powerful user interface. This session provides an introduction to GDIPlusX, going through the basics of GDI+, looking at the classes in GDIPlusX, and going through various samples of how to use GDIPlusX in VFP applications. Doug will present via remote teleconference. Feel fre...
SQL Server Tips and Tricks May 11, 2010 18:30Chicago FoxPro User/Developer GroupYears of turning the crank -- generating data row by row and set by set. New techniques are always appearing -- bring along some of your own. Shake your head in disbelief at: passing a large number of parameters to a stored procedure, nested case statements, common table expressions, annotating columns, integrating Excel with SQL server row by row, functions, extracting the top n orders for each of a group of salesmen and more! We have a good deck of slides that is filled with effective data ...
SQL Server Presentation April 20, 2010 22:30Los Angeles Visual FoxPro Developers Group Learn how I have implemented various FoxPro applications using SQL Server. Topics covered will include: 1. Various connection methods and security 2. Data types and different versions of SQL Server and the correct syntax. 3. UI Tools 4. Indexes, primary keys, and relationships. 5. Us of nulls and defaults - what to and avoid. 6. Updating table structures on the fly. 7. Touch on stored procedures and triggers. 8....
Dropping ACID (or the NoSQL movement and introduction to MongoDB) April 15, 2010 18:00Detroit Area Fox User GroupThursday, April 15, 2010 Detroit Area Fox User Group (DAFUG) presents: Dropping ACID (or the NoSQL movement and introduction to MongoDB), by Mike Feltman At the heart of traditional RDBMS systems lies a concept abbreviated as ACID: Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation and Durability. ACID is paramount in many business applications, but ACID has its costs. Each of these areas create hurdles that many applications really do not have a business reason to have to leap them. There's a growing m...
Brian Marquis on Flexible Fox Trails April 13, 2010 18:30Chicago FoxPro User/Developer GroupFox Trails was designed from the ground up to be a web architecture that insulates the distinct tiers of an application from each other. This allows different components to be swapped out with a different implementation without breaking the entire application. Join us on April 13th when the author of Fox Trails will demonstrate some interesting applications of this concept by replacing standard web pages with an interactive Adobe Flex application that connects to the same back end FoxPro busines...
PEM Editor 5.10 -- Beyond the pretty face March 16, 2010 22:30Los 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 18:00Detroit Area Fox User GroupDetroit 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 18:30Chicago FoxPro User/Developer GroupChicago 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 22:30Los Angeles Visual FoxPro Developers GroupMaking 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 18:00Detroit Area Fox User GroupDetroit 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 19:00Philadelphia VFP User GroupWith 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 18:30Chicago FoxPro User/Developer GroupOur 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 18:00Detroit Area Fox User GroupDetroit 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 19:30Los 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 19:00Philadelphia VFP User GroupFor 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 18:30Chicago FoxPro User/Developer GroupOn 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 19:30Los Angeles Visual FoxPro Developers GroupLooking 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 18:00Detroit Area Fox User GroupThursday, 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 19:00Philadelphia VFP User GroupThis 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 18:30Chicago FoxPro User/Developer GroupOur 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 18:00Detroit Area Fox User GroupThursday, 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 19:00Vancouver Foxpro User GroupVFUG 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 19:30Los Angeles Visual FoxPro Developers GroupFor 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 19:00Philadelphia VFP User GroupNote 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 18:30Chicago FoxPro User/Developer GroupWe 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 19:30Los 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 18:30Chicago FoxPro User/Developer GroupChristof 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 10:00Grand 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 18:00Detroit Area Fox User GroupThursday, 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 19:30Los Angeles Visual FoxPro Developers GroupDescription to follow. This is just a sentence to pad out to 50 characters.
September - Double Header - SWFox Rehearsals September 12, 2009 10:00Grand 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 18:30Philadelphia VFP User GroupVersion 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 18:30Chicago FoxPro User/Developer GroupAt 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 09:30Grand 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 19:30Los Angeles Visual FoxPro Developers GroupDrupal 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 11:00Chicago FoxPro User/Developer GroupCome 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 19:00Philadelphia VFP User GroupThe 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 10:00Grand 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 19:30Los Angeles Visual FoxPro Developers GroupFoxCharts 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 19:00Philadelphia VFP User GroupSQL 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 18:30Chicago FoxPro User/Developer GroupTom 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 19:30Los Angeles Visual FoxPro Developers GroupOne 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.
