ID: 37386 Created on: March 8, 2010 21:13 Updated on: April 22, 2010 21:37

Detroit Area Fox User Group
Meeting title:	Quibbles, Quirks, and Quickies
Date:	March 11, 2010 18:00
Description:	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 in these situations, at least until we learn how it works and why it behaves the way it does. This session explores some of the quirks and quibbles in Visual FoxPro with the goal of reducing the number of "What the Heck" moments in your development work, and demonstrates ways you can boost your productivity by using some quick and easy techniques in VFP that may often be overlooked or forgotten. You will learn: - Why GetWordCount() and GetWordNum() don't always work as expected - How NULL values can cause trouble in compound conditions and elsewhere - How to use TRANSFORM() with precision - Why a Rose is a rose - or is it? - What's in a name? And lots more! Rick also has a tip to reveal for those who are using Inno Setup for their deployment packages! We are always looking for volunteers and topics (please email Dale Zimmer or Rick Schummer) Meetings are typically followed by food, FoxPro, and developer discussion at a local restaurant. Holiday Inn Express - Southfield 25100 Northwestern HWY Southfield, MI 48075 Small Meeting Room on 1st Floor Hope to see you there. More DAFUG details at http://www.dafug.org Agenda: 6:00 - 8:00 Presentation 8:00 - ? Food Future Planned DAFUG Meetings and Speakers: April 15, 2010 - TBD May 13, 2010 - TBD - Mike Feltman June 10, 2010 - TBD July 2010 - No Meeting (maybe a baseball game??) August 12, 2010 - TBD September 16, 2010 - TBD October 7, 2010 - TBD November 18, 2010 - TBD December 9, 2010 - TBD DAFUG meets on the second or third Thursday of the month (except for July). Admission to DAFUG meetings will be granted free to anyone for 1 (one) meeting. After that you must either join the group (at the low cost of $30 a year, $15 for a half year) or you will be asked to pay $5 per meeting you attend. The $5 will grant you admission but no other rights or privileges of membership. Mary Pilon, Secretary for DAFUG
Url:	http://www.dafug.org
User group history/membership rate/objectives:	All meetings start at 6:00 and finish approximately 8:00pm Meetings are typically followed by food, Visual FoxPro, and developer discussion at a local restaurant. Open discussion and the other normal chatter of tips and tricks are welcome at all meetings. More DAFUG details at http://www.dafug.org Agenda: 6:00 - 8:00 Presentation 8:00 - ?? Food and FoxPro discussion DAFUG usually meets on the third Thursday of the month (except for July). Free parking is available in the hotel parking lot. Admission to DAFUG meetings will be granted free to anyone for 1 (one) meeting. After that you must either join the group (at the low cost of $30 a year, $15 for a half year) or you will be asked to pay $5 per meeting you attend. The $5 will grant you admission but no other rights or privileges of membership.
Created by:	Mary Pilon Farmington Hills, Michigan

Speaker

Rick Borup, Information Technology Associates   Rick Borup is owner and president of Information Technology Associates, a professional software development, computer services, and information systems consulting firm he founded in 1993. Rick earned BS and MBA degrees from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and spent several years developing software applications for mainframe computers before turning to microcomputer database development tools in the late 1980’s. He began working with FoxPro in 1991, and has worked full time in Fox...

Archive of meetings

No	Meeting title	Date	Speaker
1.	Introduction to Regular Expressions	June 10, 2010	David Hanna
2.	Creating Gadgets in Windows Vista & Windows 7	May 13, 2010	Paul Mrozowski
3.	Dropping ACID (or the NoSQL movement and introduction to MongoDB)	April 15, 2010	Mike Feltman
4.	Quibbles, Quirks, and Quickies	March 11, 2010	Rick Borup
5.	VFP and MySQL: Case Study for Remote Data	February 11, 2010	Rick Schummer
6.	Cool Tools, Tips and Tricks - 2	January 21, 2010	Dale Zimmer
7.	Cool Tools, Tips and Tricks	December 10, 2009	Frank Perez Andrew Maki Rick Schummer
8.	Enhancing the Visual FoxPro IDE with VFPX Tools	November 19, 2009	Rick Schummer
9.	HTML and Lucene - Southwest Fox Doubleheader	October 8, 2009	Mike Feltman Paul Mrozowski
10.	BullZip with VFP	May 14, 2009	Jody Meyer
11.	Project Explorer - Source Code Included	April 9, 2009	David Holden Paul Mrozowski
12.	Data Driven Software Architecture	March 12, 2009	Jody Meyer Rick Schummer
13.	Extending the Sedna Data Explorer	February 19, 2009	Rick Schummer
14.	VFP Calendar Controls Enhanced	January 15, 2009	Paul Mrozowski
15.	Getting Started with SVN/Tortoise	December 11, 2008	Toni Feltman
16.	Customizing Vertical Market Apps	September 11, 2008	Cathy Pountney
17.	Square Peg, Round Hole - Retrofitting Client Server Data Access into Legacy FoxPro Applications	August 14, 2008	Toni Feltman
18.	June 2008 - Using VFPX in Live Applications	June 12, 2008	Rick Schummer
19.	May 2008 - FoxTrails Revisited	May 15, 2008	Brian Marquis
20.	April 2008 - "Collections" by Mike Feltman of F1 Technologies	April 10, 2008	Mike Feltman
21.	"The Stonefield Query SDK" by Frank Perez	March 13, 2008	Frank Perez
22.	"On the Darkside of Visual FoxPro" - Christof Wollenhaupt	February 21, 2008	Christof Wollenhaupt
23.	Web 2.0 Technology Lessons	January 10, 2008	David Holden
24.	Lucene.NET as a Document Search Engine	December 13, 2007	Paul Mrozowski
25.	MapPoint	November 8, 2007
26.	OutFox the VFP Report Writer: Printing on My Terms	October 11, 2007	Cathy Pountney
27.	VFP Compiler for .NET and the .NET Extender for VFP	September 13, 2007	Toni Feltman
28.	Introduction to the DBI Controls Included in Sedna - SWF 2007 Rehearsal	August 9, 2007	Toni Feltman
29.	Using the VFP Debugger Effectively	June 14, 2007	Tamar Granor
30.	Comparison of Remote Access and Administration tools	May 10, 2007	Stephen J. Bodnar
31.	VFPX Tools and Components	April 5, 2007	Rick Schummer
32.	VFP and Vista - The Inside Story	March 8, 2007	Dale Zimmer
33.	Creating Outlook-Style Desktop Alerts with VFP	February 8, 2007	Kevin Ragsdale
34.	Cool Third Party Tools	January 11, 2007	Paul Mrozowski
35.	VMWare vs. VirtualPC	December 14, 2006	Dale Zimmer Frank Perez
36.	VFP Application Support	November 9, 2006	Dale Zimmer
37.	VFP Developer Tool Enhancements	September 14, 2006	Rick Schummer
38.	Quality Assurance - Testing Your Application (DevCon rehearsal)	August 10, 2006	Cathy Pountney
39.	How to Use InfoPath as the Face of Your Visual FoxPro Application - Toni Feltman	June 22, 2006	Toni Feltman
40.	Craig Boyd - VFP World Domination Tour	May 18, 2006	Craig Boyd
41.	Best Practices for Project Management	April 13, 2006	Cathy Pountney
42.	What's New in Visual FoxExpress from a Code Perspective	March 16, 2006	Mike Feltman Toni Feltman
43.	Advanced SQL Queries in VFP 9.0	February 16, 2006	Andy Kramek
44.	Office Automation Beyond the Basics	January 19, 2006	Tamar Granor
45.	SQL Server Replication	December 8, 2005	Stephen J. Bodnar
46.	"Getting the Most Out of Intellisense" FoxCast	November 17, 2005	Andy Kramek
47.	Building N-Tier Applications with Visual FoxPro	June 9, 2005	Toni Feltman
48.	Building N-Tier Applications with Visual FoxPro	May 12, 2005	Toni Feltman
49.	Introduction to Active FoxPro Pages	April 14, 2005	Mike Feltman
50.	Extending Inno Setup and Web Page Design with CSS	March 10, 2005	Rick Borup
51.	Andy Kramek and Marcia Akins in Detroit	December 9, 2004	Andy Kramek Marcia Akins
52.	14 Things I Learned at Southwest Fox 2004	November 11, 2004	Stephen J. Bodnar
53.	VFP 9 Material	October 14, 2004	Rick Schummer
54.	VFP 9 Report Designer - Cathy Pountney	September 9, 2004	Cathy Pountney
55.	VFP 9 Reveal - Part 1	June 10, 2004	Rick Schummer
56.	DevEssential Rehearsal - Doubleheader	May 13, 2004	Rick Schummer
57.	Visual FoxPro Integrated with QuickBooks	March 11, 2004	Paul Mrozowski
58.	Standards and Tools	February 12, 2004
59.	SQL Server - Application Role and Connection Management	January 8, 2004	Steve Sawyer
60.	VFP 8 Task Pane Manager and Code References	December 11, 2003	Toni Feltman
61.	Open Discussion Night	November 20, 2003
62.	Practical Uses for New Features in Visual FoxPro 8.0	October 16, 2003	Doug Hennig
63.	Creating Help - Made Easy!	September 18, 2003	Rick Schummer
64.	Use of Flash/VFP/WebConnect for Data Retrieval	June 19, 2003
65.	No topic	May 15, 2003
66.	Network Database Applications with Linux on Embedded Hardware	May 15, 2003
67.	Building your Data Access Layer with VFP8	April 10, 2003	Toni Feltman
68.	Fox is Everywhere World Tour: Fox and Linux	March 20, 2003	Whil Hentzen
69.	Builders - Made Easy	February 20, 2003	Rick Schummer
70.	VFP 8 (Part 3)	January 16, 2003	Rick Schummer
71.	VFP 8 Revealed (Part 2)	December 12, 2002	Paul Mrozowski Rick Schummer
72.	To be Announced	November 21, 2002
73.	GLGDW Rehearsal Double Header	October 17, 2002	Rick Schummer
74.	To be announced...	September 19, 2002
75.	IntelliSense Scripting	August 15, 2002	Mike Potjer
76.	June 2002 - VMWare	June 20, 2002
77.	May 2002 - Crystal Reports	May 16, 2002
78.	Detroit Area Fox User Group (April 2002)	April 11, 2002
79.	March - Designing a Data Model Using a CASE Tool	March 21, 2002
80.	February - PocketPC Embedded Visual Basic	February 21, 2002
81.	January - Wireless Technology	January 17, 2002
82.	December: Automating MapPoint	December 13, 2001
83.	November Meeting	November 15, 2001	Jacci Adams
84.	DevTools: Build, Grab, or Buy	October 11, 2001	Rick Schummer
85.	Advisor DevCon Recap	September 20, 2001	Rick Schummer
86.	Andy Kramek and Marcia Akins speaks at DAFUG	August 16, 2001	Andy Kramek Marcia Akins

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