Southwest Fox 2010: Call for Speakers Deadline Reminder News [March 10, 2010 13:26] 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.
Cursor Adapter .PRG generator Downloads [March 9, 2010 11:04] It generates a .PRG file for cursoradapter. So you can use that .prg file with your different forms. There isn't 512 chars barrel anymore. 09-02-10: small bug fix. 04-02-10: small bug fix. 02-02-10: bug fix about long field names. Update: ---------- -added bigint, blob, int support -option for not convert datetime to date -option for fullname of field types
Quibbles, Quirks, and Quickies Meeting [March 8, 2010 21:15] 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 ...
PEM Editor 5.10 -- Beyond the pretty face Meeting [March 8, 2010 18:48] 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...
Cloud Computing and GDIPLUSX library Meeting [March 4, 2010 15:39] 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!
Shell MegaPack.WPF 2010 released News [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 News [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 News [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.
Command Bars Library (includes the Ribbon) (version 8.0.008) Downloads [February 26, 2010 02:45] The Command Bars Library provides Visual FoxPro developers with a sophisticated Office style Command Bars and Ribbon. The Command Bars Library comes with built-in theme support that will allow you to choose from predefined themes such as Office 2000, Office XP, Office 2003, Office 2007, Office 2007/2010 Ribbon, Visual Studio 2005/2008 or custom themes. The Command Bars Library gives your Visual FoxPro application toolbars and menus a professional modern appearance similar to many popular Microso...
XLS Converter Links [February 25, 2010 15:10] XLS Converter converts excel files to DBF (Dbase III/IV, Visual FoxPro), TXT, HTML, XML, CSV, SQL, RTF. The program has a wizard-driven interface, command-line support, automatic duplicates removal and batch mode. For more browsing convenience, XLS Converter allows the user to filter and sort data by any column. Conversion is fast and flawless.
Advanced XLS Converter v1.45 News [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 News [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...
VFP Developer Jobs [February 23, 2010 12:02]Senior VFP developer with 5+ years in VFP. Experience with all aspects of Visual Foxpro application development. Version 8 or 9 development experience preferred. Must be experienced with SQL Server 2005. Responsibilities are to include maintenance and extension of a very large VFP 9 / SQL Server 2005 application. Position is in-house developer, no relocation costs, no sponserships.
Arg Txlib for Textcontrol 15.1 (Ribbon Textcontrol for Visual Foxpro) Downloads [February 23, 2010 11:19]Alex Grigorjev has brought us his marvelous Command Bars Library. Now he is going to bring us something even more powerful: the complete integration of the industry leading activex Textcontrol, adapted to VFP. Implementation of a powerful ribbon based (word-like) Textcontrol into your app has neven been easier before! Design new apps with integrated Textcontrol with the look and feel of Office 2010. This is a demo of the upcoming product features. The demo (just 1 exe file) is completely ...
Healthcare Logistics to Hospitality Services News [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. News [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...
Report wrapper object Downloads [February 18, 2010 03:17]Report wrapper object. It offers an easy to use approach of REPORT FORM statement, with most of its parameters, and some very usefull enhancements: top-level form preview, posibility to find out the max pages # for a report without running it, (real) posibility to know if a report was actually printed or only previewed, when it was started in Preview mode, and few other facilities You can download it from Development page.
Check listbox Downloads [February 18, 2010 03:17]Check box enabled ListBox. It enhance standard Visual FoxPro list-box with ability to provide check-boxes for any item. It allows 3D style, plain style and even custom images for check boxes. Also, it supports two or three state check-boxes.
Visual Foxpro Programmer (Pine Brook, New Jersey) Jobs [February 17, 2010 10:56]VISUAL FOXPRO PROGRAMMER FOR NEW DEVELOPMENT. PAYROLL AND ACCOUNTING KNOWLEDGE A PLUS. 3+ YEARS OF PROGRAMMING EXPERIENCE IN FOXPRO AND VISUAL FOXPRO 9 SP2. Please email your resume with salary requirements and salary history and references. Immediate opening. Email address: olympicnv@aol.com
Contract Windows 2003 Administrator Jobs [February 11, 2010 12:53]We are looking for a knowledgeable contract WIndows 2003 administrator to secure our remote server, establish tightly restricted user accounts and perform periodic tuning and monitoring for potential problems. After the original setup, we don't expect this to take more than a few hours a month, and ideally the work would be done in the evening/at night, so this would be a good little gig for a person employed full time somewhere else. We would expect this person to do the work entirely throu...
VFP and MySQL: Case Study for Remote Data Meeting [February 9, 2010 06:14]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...
Snow Day / meeting cancelled Meeting [February 8, 2010 17:48]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.
Cancelled Due to Snow Meeting [February 8, 2010 08:27]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...
Database Event Alerters Downloads [February 3, 2010 01:02]Databases supported by DB Event Alerter: MS SQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL, Firebird, MySQL. The event notification mechanism includes server and client components. An event can be posted by using the server component. The server component broadcasts event messages to interested client applications. An application can get messages using a client component. This component is the Sql_messenger ActiveX control. The control allows client application to receive me...
VFP Report Writer SP2 Updates Meeting [February 1, 2010 17:38]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.
CryptoLicensing For ActiveX 2010 released News [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 Pro Studio 6.4 beta Downloads [January 22, 2010 11:36]Visual WebGui Professional Studio for .NET 3.5 (Visual Studio 2008) version 6.4 beta 1a
Visual WebGui platform further enhances its SDK with the integration of jQuery in its new 6.4 versio News [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)...
Cool Tools, Tips and Tricks - 2 Meeting [January 20, 2010 05:42]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...
Crypto Obfuscator For .Net 2010 released News [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 News [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...
VFP Report Writer SP2 Updates Demonstration Meeting [January 15, 2010 00:04] 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.
Accelerate Desk Business Solutions Consulting [January 14, 2010 10:58]Outsource your Visual Foxpro Development , web sites, mobile and handheld development needs! We at Accelerate Desk Business Solutions, Inc. have the special expertise in web, mobile, and handheld development that only years of experience in the international scene can give. Our skillset includes Visual Studio .NET, C#, ASP.NET, Visual Basic, SQL Server, Oracle, Visual Foxpro, Java, C++, PHP, Web Technologies, XML, GSM AT&T programming... you name it, we have it.
GeneXus IDE demo at Chicago FUDG Meeting [January 11, 2010 08:01]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/...
