New location starting with June meeting

We're pleased to announce that, as of the June, 2010 meeting, we'll move into our new location. Thanks to Valley Forge Pension Management, who have been our hosts in Dresher for several years, for allowing us to use their new facilities in Blue Bell. The new location is:

550 Township Line Road
Suite 300
Blue Bell, PA 19422

This is just a few minutes from where the PA Turnpike, Blue Route and Northeast Extension meet in Plymouth Meeting, providing easy access whether you're coming from North, South, East or West.

November meeting--The Conference Experience

The next meeting of the Philadelphia VFP User Group will take place next Tuesday, November 11. Bob Pierce will lead a session on "The Conference Experience."

For those of you who couldn't attend the SouthWest Fox conference this year, this is your chance to find out what's new with our favorite tool. We will start off with video of the keynote presentation and cover several topics discussed at the conference. This will include updates on Christof's Guineu project, the eTecnologia Extender/Compiler, and the VFPX project. In addition, Bob will introduce an exciting client/server platform, the Advantage Database Server, which promises to make it much easier for VFP developers to make the move to a server based SQL backend.

There will be some giveaway goodies from the conference, as well.

The meeting will take place at 7 PM at Valley Forge Pension Management, 715 Twining Road, Suite 202, Dresher, PA 19025. (Note: The Oreland offramp from PA 309 Southbound has been permanently closed. The easiest way to reach the meeting location from the PA Turnpike or 309 Southbound is to come through the Fort Washington Industrial Park.)

All are welcome to bring dinner and come as early as 6:30 PM.

Tamar

March 19: Bob Pierce on the Guineu Project

Our next meeting will be Wednesday, March 19 at 7:30 PM. We'll try once again (third time's the charm) to hear Bob Pierce talk about the Guineu Project.

Location: Valley Forge Pension Management, 715 Twining Road, Suite 202, Dresher, PA 19025
Note: The Oreland offramp from PA 309 Southbound has been permanently closed. The easiest way to reach the meeting location from the PA Turnpike or 309 Southbound is to come through the Fort Washington Industrial Park.

Feel free to bring something to eat and arrive as early as 6:30.

Topic: Guineu Project

The Guineu project is one of the most promising solutions to the VFP developer to be able to extend the viability of the language we all love. Being run by Christof Wollenhaupt, one of the brightest minds in the Fox community, the Guineu project is a replacement set of runtime DLL's that run your compiled VFP code in a .NET environment.

So what does that mean for us, for starters your VFP application can now run on most platforms that support .NET. This includes future versions of MicroSoft OS, Linux, PDA's, and web pages.

Currently the project is still very young and is far from being complete, but it already provides usable functionality and is being updated aggressively. I will show how to take a simple existing program, compile it with Guineu, and run it in Windows, Linux, PDA, and a web page.

More information can be found at www.foxpert.com and the beta is available free.

Speaker: Robert Pierce

Robert Pierce is currently the Manager of Information Services and senior developer at Smooth-On Inc., a rubber and plastics manufacturing company located in Easton, PA. With 23 years of custom Fox programming experience; he has been a consultant, a contract programmer, and part of the TIW development team.

Welcome to the Philadelphia Visual FoxPro User Group's blog!

Our user group is now about two years old. We've been meaning to set up a website, but haven't quite gotten there yet. Member Bill Fitzgerald pointed out that a blog would provide an easy way to post notices without the overhead of maintaining a website. So Bob Pierce and I, who run the group, decided to give a try.