Our next meeting will be on Tuesday, May 10 at 7:00 PM. As usual, feel free to come any time after 6:30 and bring something to eat.
We again have a double-header scheduled for this month. Jim Walsh will present “An example of developing a COM server in VFP," which was carried over from our last meeting. Raymond Knight will present "Grid Column Header Sorting Made Easy."
Jim Walsh has a PhD in Physiology and Biophysics, and an MS in Physics. He is an independent consultant specializing in biomedical, scientific and engineering applications, primarily in VFP and C++.
Jim's talk is entitled “An example of developing a COM server in VFP”. COM servers represent a good strategy for providing functionality that is needed by several programs written in different languages. Jim will describe the development of a COM server that provides access to the data in a Firebird database for VFP and C++ clients. Visual FoxPro makes developing COM servers relatively easy. It hides many of the underlying details. But, can the things hidden by the Fox come back to bite you?
Raymond has 30 years development experience since 1981 with heavy user contact and 4 years of call center (1991-1995) experience at the Naval Air Warfare Center (NAWC) in Warminster. Heavy C#/Visual Studio 2005 and ADO.NET along with heavy VISUAL FOXPRO design and programming through version 9. Very strong relational database background including heavy hands on SQL Server 2000/2005. For example, designed SQL tables for conversion of CCALC system from DBF’s to SQL tables. Previously converted a Salesman Commission System (CCALC) from VISUAL FOXPRO 8 to C#/ADO.NET and SQL Server 2000/2005. Previously worked in VISUAL BASIC 6.0. Presently doing work in VISUAL FOXPRO including DBF to SQL conversions.
The description of his session is:
Through the use of this grid column sorting class one can avoid the drawn out process of enabling each column in each grid for ascending and descending sorts. One need only throw this class onto a form and it will automatically find all the grids on a form and it will automatically enable column sorting for each column in each grid. You can also disable any columns within a grid that you don't want to be sorted as well as disabling whole grids through the properties settings. As an added feature, if a column is defined as character the actual sorting method within the grid sorting class will try determine the actual type (date, numeric, etc.) if the type is not really a character type. As a final feature, if the proper property is set the up and down arrow keys will go from top to bottom and bottom to top which a normal foxpro grid does not do when it comes to up and down arrow keys.
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Thursday, May 5, 2011
Thursday, April 7, 2011
April 12, 2011--Double-header
Our next meeting will be on Tuesday, April 12 at 7:00 PM. As usual, feel free to come any time after 6:30 and bring something to eat.
We have a double-header this month. Garth Groft will a look at his adventures in moving an application to the Web. Jim Walsh will present “An example of developing a COM server in VFP”.
Here are the bios and abstracts:
Garth Groft is currently the lead developer and owner of MicroComputer Task Group (MCTG) located in York Pa. With 22 years of custom Fox and Visual Fox programming experience, he has been a consultant, a contract programmer, and leader of a nine man development team. Clients include Fortune 500 companies. The company has an International applications user base numbering well over a1000 users in most every county worldwide. In addition to IT consulting and applications development, MCTG has a strong knowledge base of HVAC (Heating, Ventilating, and Air-Conditioning), heat transfer, numerical analysis, statistical analysis and CAD (Computer Aided Design). The company is currently focused on developing cost-effective strategies and solutions for porting VFP applications to the web. This strategy addresses growing interest by clients in "cloud" applications accessible via mobile devices while maintaining VFP as an integral part of the solution. Protecting my clients’ investments in VFP applications is also key to this strategy. The RAD advantages of VFP are ported to the web.
Garth's presentation centers on an invoice payment application developed in two distinct VFP-based web servers, VFP2IIS and FoxInCloud. FoxInCloud utilizes West Wind Web Connect, Active Widgets and FoxInCloud's own unique Application Adapter Assistant.
Jim Walsh has a PhD in Physiology and Biophysics, and an MS in Physics. He is an independent consultant specializing in biomedical, scientific and engineering applications, primarily in VFP and C++.
Jim's talk is entitled “An example of developing a COM server in VFP”. COM servers represent a good strategy for providing functionality that is needed by several programs written in different languages. Jim will describe the development of a COM server that provides access to the data in a Firebird database for VFP and C++ clients. Visual FoxPro makes developing COM servers relatively easy. It hides many of the underlying details. But, can the things hidden by the Fox come back to bite you?
We have a double-header this month. Garth Groft will a look at his adventures in moving an application to the Web. Jim Walsh will present “An example of developing a COM server in VFP”.
Here are the bios and abstracts:
Garth Groft is currently the lead developer and owner of MicroComputer Task Group (MCTG) located in York Pa. With 22 years of custom Fox and Visual Fox programming experience, he has been a consultant, a contract programmer, and leader of a nine man development team. Clients include Fortune 500 companies. The company has an International applications user base numbering well over a1000 users in most every county worldwide. In addition to IT consulting and applications development, MCTG has a strong knowledge base of HVAC (Heating, Ventilating, and Air-Conditioning), heat transfer, numerical analysis, statistical analysis and CAD (Computer Aided Design). The company is currently focused on developing cost-effective strategies and solutions for porting VFP applications to the web. This strategy addresses growing interest by clients in "cloud" applications accessible via mobile devices while maintaining VFP as an integral part of the solution. Protecting my clients’ investments in VFP applications is also key to this strategy. The RAD advantages of VFP are ported to the web.
Garth's presentation centers on an invoice payment application developed in two distinct VFP-based web servers, VFP2IIS and FoxInCloud. FoxInCloud utilizes West Wind Web Connect, Active Widgets and FoxInCloud's own unique Application Adapter Assistant.
Jim Walsh has a PhD in Physiology and Biophysics, and an MS in Physics. He is an independent consultant specializing in biomedical, scientific and engineering applications, primarily in VFP and C++.
Jim's talk is entitled “An example of developing a COM server in VFP”. COM servers represent a good strategy for providing functionality that is needed by several programs written in different languages. Jim will describe the development of a COM server that provides access to the data in a Firebird database for VFP and C++ clients. Visual FoxPro makes developing COM servers relatively easy. It hides many of the underlying details. But, can the things hidden by the Fox come back to bite you?
Tuesday, December 7, 2010
December 14--Short presentations plus MSDN giveaway
Our December meeting features a few short presentations. Bill Fitzgerald will talk about SQL Stored procedures with .NET. Bob Pierce will present "Sidebars, add customizable convenience for your users."
Here's Bob's abstract: A customizable sidebar is a great way to give your users quick access to information and functionality to increase productivity. I will show some of the benefits of a sidebar as well as the technique I used to create a production sidebar using VFP. I will then discuss some of the things I learned and would do different if I were to build a sidebar from scratch today.
Depending on time, we may have one more short take.
We will be raffling off a one-year Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate with MSDN subscription, with a retail value of nearly $12,000. (Note: it must be activated by the end of the year.) All those present will be eligible to win. We have some nice giveaway items from Microsoft as well.
We're looking for presenters for 2011. Please get in touch with Bob Pierce (rpierce@smooth-on.com) if you have something to share with the group.
Here's Bob's abstract: A customizable sidebar is a great way to give your users quick access to information and functionality to increase productivity. I will show some of the benefits of a sidebar as well as the technique I used to create a production sidebar using VFP. I will then discuss some of the things I learned and would do different if I were to build a sidebar from scratch today.
Depending on time, we may have one more short take.
We will be raffling off a one-year Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate with MSDN subscription, with a retail value of nearly $12,000. (Note: it must be activated by the end of the year.) All those present will be eligible to win. We have some nice giveaway items from Microsoft as well.
We're looking for presenters for 2011. Please get in touch with Bob Pierce (rpierce@smooth-on.com) if you have something to share with the group.
Tuesday, November 2, 2010
November, 2010--Tamar Granor on Office Automation
Our next meeting will take place Tuesday evening, November 9 at 7 PM. As usual, feel free to come as early at 6:30 and bring dinner.
This month, Tamar E. Granor will present her Southwest Fox session "Office Automation Tips, Tricks and Traps":
Once you get started automating Microsoft Office, you're likely to find more and more uses for Automation. But you also start running into peculiarities of the individual servers, file format issues, and other complications. In this session, we'll look at a number of issues related to automating the Office servers, including exploring why recording a macro can lead you astray. Most of the topics will apply to multiple Office servers, but we'll also look at the so-called Outlook "hell patch" and how you can automate Outlook email with a minimum of fuss.
Tamar E. Granor, Ph.D., is the owner of Tomorrow's Solutions, LLC. She has developed and enhanced numerous Visual FoxPro applications for businesses and other organizations. She currently focuses on working with other developers through consulting and subcontracting.
Tamar served as Editor of FoxPro Advisor magazine from 1994 to 2000 and was Technical Editor from 2000 to 2008. She served as co-author of the popular Advisor Answers column from 1993 to 2008. She has also written for FoxTalk and CoDe; she currently writes for FoxRockX.
Tamar is author or co-author of ten books including the award winning Hacker's Guide to Visual FoxPro and Microsoft Office Automation with Visual FoxPro. Her most recent books are Making Sense of Sedna and SP2 and Taming Visual FoxPro's SQL. Her books are available from Hentzenwerke Publishing.
In 2007, Tamar received the Visual FoxPro Community Lifetime Achievement Award. She has received Microsoft Support's Most Valuable Professional award annually since the program's inception in 1993. Tamar speaks frequently about Visual FoxPro at conferences and user groups in North America and Europe and is one of the organizers of the annual Southwest Fox conference.
This month, Tamar E. Granor will present her Southwest Fox session "Office Automation Tips, Tricks and Traps":
Once you get started automating Microsoft Office, you're likely to find more and more uses for Automation. But you also start running into peculiarities of the individual servers, file format issues, and other complications. In this session, we'll look at a number of issues related to automating the Office servers, including exploring why recording a macro can lead you astray. Most of the topics will apply to multiple Office servers, but we'll also look at the so-called Outlook "hell patch" and how you can automate Outlook email with a minimum of fuss.
Tamar E. Granor, Ph.D., is the owner of Tomorrow's Solutions, LLC. She has developed and enhanced numerous Visual FoxPro applications for businesses and other organizations. She currently focuses on working with other developers through consulting and subcontracting.
Tamar served as Editor of FoxPro Advisor magazine from 1994 to 2000 and was Technical Editor from 2000 to 2008. She served as co-author of the popular Advisor Answers column from 1993 to 2008. She has also written for FoxTalk and CoDe; she currently writes for FoxRockX.
Tamar is author or co-author of ten books including the award winning Hacker's Guide to Visual FoxPro and Microsoft Office Automation with Visual FoxPro. Her most recent books are Making Sense of Sedna and SP2 and Taming Visual FoxPro's SQL. Her books are available from Hentzenwerke Publishing.
In 2007, Tamar received the Visual FoxPro Community Lifetime Achievement Award. She has received Microsoft Support's Most Valuable Professional award annually since the program's inception in 1993. Tamar speaks frequently about Visual FoxPro at conferences and user groups in North America and Europe and is one of the organizers of the annual Southwest Fox conference.
Tuesday, October 5, 2010
MONDAY, October 11--Christof Wollenhaupt on "How the Fox is Different"
Come out on a special night for a special treat as VFP guru Christof Wollenhaupt visits our group. The meeting will take place MONDAY, October 11 at 7 PM.
As usual, we'll start with dinner at 6:30 PM. We'll provide dinner for this meeting, so please let Bob Pierce (rpierce@smooth-on.com) know if you plan to join us, so we have enough food.
Christof will preview his Southwest Fox session "How the Fox is Different":
You always knew that FoxPro is different from every other programming language! You had a pretty clear idea that the development environment of Visual FoxPro is far superior to the one found in .NET, Java, and PHP. How else is it possible that those languages exists for years or even more than a decade and still lack features that FoxPro sported for eons? Even the simplest task in any of these languages requires an incredible amount of time. It's certainly not surprising that every single .NET project takes a multitude of time of a comparable VFP project to complete.
Ever thought along these lines? Then this session might have a few surprises for you. There will be a few insights in how FoxPro and other languages (primarily .NET) differ. We will see how even minor differences in the languages lead to vastly different application designs. It shouldn't come as surprise that many techniques published in books are aimed at C++, .NET and Java developers. Those techniques are good for those languages, but often a sub-optimal choice for VFP. Nonetheless, they were adopted by the VFP community and naturally failed to deliver the promised value.
If you have years of experience with Visual FoxPro, this session will support you in using .NET more efficiently. Yet, at the same time, it should made clear that "knowing OOP" is by far not enough to master .NET. Becoming proficient in .NET isn't the matter of learning a language; it's a matter of learning an idiom.
If you are one of the poor souls that started as a .NET or Java developer and have been forced to work on a VFP project, you'll learn that VFP isn't as awful as you first thought; just very different.
Christof Wollenhaupt specializes in FoxPro and .NET development and consulting. Having worked with FoxPro for more than 18 years he now has made every thinkable error in FoxPro personally. Customers around the world rely on his experience to learn from these mistakes. Christof is an international speaker at user group meetings and conferences and the organiser of the Hamburger Stammtisch für Datenbankentwickler, a monthly meeting for Microsoft database developers. Despite spending his time writing way over a hundred articles for various magazines, he was awarded the Microsoft MVP award every year since 1997. Christof authored the Guineu product family, a development environment that moves FoxPro forward to other platforms. For more information please visit http://www.foxpert.com and http://www.guineu.net.
As usual, we'll start with dinner at 6:30 PM. We'll provide dinner for this meeting, so please let Bob Pierce (rpierce@smooth-on.com) know if you plan to join us, so we have enough food.
Christof will preview his Southwest Fox session "How the Fox is Different":
You always knew that FoxPro is different from every other programming language! You had a pretty clear idea that the development environment of Visual FoxPro is far superior to the one found in .NET, Java, and PHP. How else is it possible that those languages exists for years or even more than a decade and still lack features that FoxPro sported for eons? Even the simplest task in any of these languages requires an incredible amount of time. It's certainly not surprising that every single .NET project takes a multitude of time of a comparable VFP project to complete.
Ever thought along these lines? Then this session might have a few surprises for you. There will be a few insights in how FoxPro and other languages (primarily .NET) differ. We will see how even minor differences in the languages lead to vastly different application designs. It shouldn't come as surprise that many techniques published in books are aimed at C++, .NET and Java developers. Those techniques are good for those languages, but often a sub-optimal choice for VFP. Nonetheless, they were adopted by the VFP community and naturally failed to deliver the promised value.
If you have years of experience with Visual FoxPro, this session will support you in using .NET more efficiently. Yet, at the same time, it should made clear that "knowing OOP" is by far not enough to master .NET. Becoming proficient in .NET isn't the matter of learning a language; it's a matter of learning an idiom.
If you are one of the poor souls that started as a .NET or Java developer and have been forced to work on a VFP project, you'll learn that VFP isn't as awful as you first thought; just very different.
Christof Wollenhaupt specializes in FoxPro and .NET development and consulting. Having worked with FoxPro for more than 18 years he now has made every thinkable error in FoxPro personally. Customers around the world rely on his experience to learn from these mistakes. Christof is an international speaker at user group meetings and conferences and the organiser of the Hamburger Stammtisch für Datenbankentwickler, a monthly meeting for Microsoft database developers. Despite spending his time writing way over a hundred articles for various magazines, he was awarded the Microsoft MVP award every year since 1997. Christof authored the Guineu product family, a development environment that moves FoxPro forward to other platforms. For more information please visit http://www.foxpert.com and http://www.guineu.net.
Monday, August 2, 2010
Southwest Fox Previews to come--Durban and Wollenhaupt
We're excited to present two Southwest Fox previews in the upcoming months, featuring two well-known speakers.
Tuesday, September 14, Bo Durban will present "Extending VFP using the Web Browser Control" and, if time permits, give us a peek at his other session "Using Direct2D with Visual FoxPro."
On MONDAY, October 11 (note the special night), Christof Wollenhaupt will present "How the Fox is Different."
For details on the sessions, check http://swfox.net/sessions.aspx.
Tuesday, September 14, Bo Durban will present "Extending VFP using the Web Browser Control" and, if time permits, give us a peek at his other session "Using Direct2D with Visual FoxPro."
On MONDAY, October 11 (note the special night), Christof Wollenhaupt will present "How the Fox is Different."
For details on the sessions, check http://swfox.net/sessions.aspx.
Tuesday, June 1, 2010
June meeting--Advantage Database Server
Our next meeting will take place next Tuesday, June 8, at 7 PM at our new location: Valley Forge Pension Management, 550 Township Line Road, Suite 300, Blue Bell, PA 19422. As usual, you're welcome to arrive as early as 6:30 PM and bring dinner with you.
Our speakers this month are Chris Franz and Jay Wendt of Sybase. They'll introduce Advantage Database Server:
You already know that Visual FoxPro is one of the best tools available for application development, but did you know that Advantage Database Server has better support for Visual FoxPro than any other database engine? Join us as we take you on a tour through the product. We'll introduce you to Sybase and how Advantage fits into the big picture. Then, we'll move on to the technical aspect of the server and why it's different than any other database engine. You'll see getting started tips and demos to view first hand and just how easy it is for FoxPro developers to move to client/server with Advantage. We'll even provide development versions of the software for attendees.
Our speakers this month are Chris Franz and Jay Wendt of Sybase. They'll introduce Advantage Database Server:
You already know that Visual FoxPro is one of the best tools available for application development, but did you know that Advantage Database Server has better support for Visual FoxPro than any other database engine? Join us as we take you on a tour through the product. We'll introduce you to Sybase and how Advantage fits into the big picture. Then, we'll move on to the technical aspect of the server and why it's different than any other database engine. You'll see getting started tips and demos to view first hand and just how easy it is for FoxPro developers to move to client/server with Advantage. We'll even provide development versions of the software for attendees.
Tuesday, May 25, 2010
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.
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.
Saturday, May 8, 2010
May meeting--Doug Hennig (live from Saskatchewan) on GDIPlusX
Our next meeting will take place Tuesday, May 11 at 7:00 PM. For one more month, we'll meet at Granor-Price Office Center, 721 Dresher Road, Horsham, PA. As usual, feel free to come as early as 6:30 and bring some dinner.
We're trying something new for this month's meeting. Doug Hennig will present a session remotely. That is, he'll be in Sasksatchewan and thanks to the Internet, be able to give us a live presentation.
Introduction to GDIPlusX
GDIPlusX 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 Hennig is a partner with Stonefield Systems Group Inc. and Stonefield Software Inc. He is the author of the award-winning Stonefield Database Toolkit (SDT); the award-winning Stonefield Query; the MemberData Editor, Anchor Editor, and CursorAdapter and DataEnvironment builders that come with Microsoft Visual FoxPro; and the My namespace and updated Upsizing Wizard in Sedna.
Doug is co-author of Making Sense of Sedna and SP2, Visual FoxPro Best Practices For The Next Ten Years, the What's New in Visual FoxPro series (the latest being What's New in Nine), and The Hacker's Guide to Visual FoxPro 7.0. He was the technical editor of The Hacker's Guide to Visual FoxPro 6.0 and The Fundamentals. All of these books are from Hentzenwerke Publishing (http://www.hentzenwerke.com). Doug wrote over 100 articles in 10 years for FoxTalk and has written numerous articles in FoxPro Advisor, Advisor Guide to Visual FoxPro, and CoDe. He currently writes for FoxRockX (http://www.foxrockx.com).
He spoke at every Microsoft FoxPro Developers Conference (DevCon) starting in 1997 and at user groups and developer conferences all over the world. He is one of the organizers of the annual Southwest Fox conference. He is one of the administrators for the VFPX VFP community extensions Web site (http://vfpx.codeplex.com). He has been a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) since 1996. Doug was awarded the 2006 FoxPro Community Lifetime Achievement Award (http://fox.wikis.com/wc.dll?Wiki~FoxProCommunityLifetimeAchievementAward~VFP).
Web: http://www.stonefield.com and http://www.stonefieldquery.com
Blog: http://doughennig.blogspot.com
Twitter: http://twitter.com/DougHennig
Mark your calendar for June 8, when we'll get a Mike Hagman from Sybase will present Advantage Database Server.
We're trying something new for this month's meeting. Doug Hennig will present a session remotely. That is, he'll be in Sasksatchewan and thanks to the Internet, be able to give us a live presentation.
Introduction to GDIPlusX
GDIPlusX 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 Hennig is a partner with Stonefield Systems Group Inc. and Stonefield Software Inc. He is the author of the award-winning Stonefield Database Toolkit (SDT); the award-winning Stonefield Query; the MemberData Editor, Anchor Editor, and CursorAdapter and DataEnvironment builders that come with Microsoft Visual FoxPro; and the My namespace and updated Upsizing Wizard in Sedna.
Doug is co-author of Making Sense of Sedna and SP2, Visual FoxPro Best Practices For The Next Ten Years, the What's New in Visual FoxPro series (the latest being What's New in Nine), and The Hacker's Guide to Visual FoxPro 7.0. He was the technical editor of The Hacker's Guide to Visual FoxPro 6.0 and The Fundamentals. All of these books are from Hentzenwerke Publishing (http://www.hentzenwerke.com). Doug wrote over 100 articles in 10 years for FoxTalk and has written numerous articles in FoxPro Advisor, Advisor Guide to Visual FoxPro, and CoDe. He currently writes for FoxRockX (http://www.foxrockx.com).
He spoke at every Microsoft FoxPro Developers Conference (DevCon) starting in 1997 and at user groups and developer conferences all over the world. He is one of the organizers of the annual Southwest Fox conference. He is one of the administrators for the VFPX VFP community extensions Web site (http://vfpx.codeplex.com). He has been a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) since 1996. Doug was awarded the 2006 FoxPro Community Lifetime Achievement Award (http://fox.wikis.com/wc.dll?Wiki~FoxProCommunityLifetimeAchievementAward~VFP).
Web: http://www.stonefield.com and http://www.stonefieldquery.com
Blog: http://doughennig.blogspot.com
Twitter: http://twitter.com/DougHennig
Mark your calendar for June 8, when we'll get a Mike Hagman from Sybase will present Advantage Database Server.
Monday, April 5, 2010
April 13--Chick Bornheim on FoxFire!
We will meet next Tuesday, April 13, at 7 PM. Our speaker will be Chick Bornheim, the President and Founder of Micromega Systems, makers of FoxFire! Report Writer. The meeting will be held at the Granor Price Office Center, 721 Dresher Road, Horsham, PA 19044.
The group will provide dinner for this meeting (including homemade pastrami) beginning at 6:30 PM. Please let Tamar Granor (tamar@tamargranor.com) know if you plan to attend, so we have enough food.
Chick Bornheim has spent over 30 years in various app-dev roles including user liason, designer, developer, program manager, marketing, licensing, and executive management. He is a principal member of the Foxfire! design team and two other vertical products, founder of two successful businesses and has advised or assisted in the many other startups.
Foxfire! Report Writer v8+ comprises a family of data mining tools designed for regular business users. Developers can:
* adapt it to almost any FoxPro or ODBC compatible database
* immediately add any features required to create a glove-fit solution to the end user's needs.
Foxfire! is the only set of report writers for the vfp environment that can operate interchangeably on both platforms. Its interactive drag-'n-drop design tools has been praised by usability experts and end users alike for simplicity without sacrificing power.
Micromega Systems offers Foxfire! consulting, integration, and training services. Our growth strategy is partnering, and we are currently seeking other developers who want to partner to create custom or localized versions to address special market opportunities. Go to www.foxfirereporting.com to explore how we might work together.
Andrew MacNeill will join Chick by teleconference to demonstrate how east it is for developers adapt Foxfire! to simplify the user's experience of reporting with a custom database, and how simple it is to port the Windows version to the Foxfire! Web Report Writer.
The group will provide dinner for this meeting (including homemade pastrami) beginning at 6:30 PM. Please let Tamar Granor (tamar@tamargranor.com) know if you plan to attend, so we have enough food.
Chick Bornheim has spent over 30 years in various app-dev roles including user liason, designer, developer, program manager, marketing, licensing, and executive management. He is a principal member of the Foxfire! design team and two other vertical products, founder of two successful businesses and has advised or assisted in the many other startups.
Foxfire! Report Writer v8+ comprises a family of data mining tools designed for regular business users. Developers can:
* adapt it to almost any FoxPro or ODBC compatible database
* immediately add any features required to create a glove-fit solution to the end user's needs.
Foxfire! is the only set of report writers for the vfp environment that can operate interchangeably on both platforms. Its interactive drag-'n-drop design tools has been praised by usability experts and end users alike for simplicity without sacrificing power.
Micromega Systems offers Foxfire! consulting, integration, and training services. Our growth strategy is partnering, and we are currently seeking other developers who want to partner to create custom or localized versions to address special market opportunities. Go to www.foxfirereporting.com to explore how we might work together.
Andrew MacNeill will join Chick by teleconference to demonstrate how east it is for developers adapt Foxfire! to simplify the user's experience of reporting with a custom database, and how simple it is to port the Windows version to the Foxfire! Web Report Writer.
Monday, March 15, 2010
Advantage Database Server moved to June
The presentation on the Advantage Database Server, which had been scheduled for May 11, has been moved to June 8, to accommodate Mike Hagman from Sybase, who'll give the presentation.
Thursday, February 4, 2010
February 9 - Open Mike night! Bring a command
Our next meeting will take place on February 9 at 7 PM. As usual, feel free to bring dinner and to arrive as early as 6:30 PM.
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 for the group.
Note that we will be changing our meeting location soon. More info to come as soon as we have the details ironed out.
Also, mark your calendar now for upcoming meetings:
March 9 -- speaker needed
April 13 -- Advantage Database Server
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 for the group.
Note that we will be changing our meeting location soon. More info to come as soon as we have the details ironed out.
Also, mark your calendar now for upcoming meetings:
March 9 -- speaker needed
April 13 -- Advantage Database Server
Wednesday, January 6, 2010
January 12--Tamar Granor on Business Objects
Our next meeting will take place Tuesday, January 12, 2010. As usual, feel free to bring dinner and arrive as early as 6:30.
Tamar E. Granor will present "Getting Your Head Around Business Objects," previously seen at Southwest Fox 2009.
Abstract: 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.
Tamar E. Granor, Ph.D., is the owner of Tomorrow's Solutions, LLC. She has developed and enhanced numerous Visual FoxPro applications for businesses and other organizations. She currently focuses on working with other developers through consulting and subcontracting.
Tamar served as Editor of FoxPro Advisor magazine from 1994 to 2000 and was Technical Editor from 2000 to 2008. She served as co-author of the popular Advisor Answers column from 1993 to 2008. She has also written for FoxTalk and CoDe; she currently writes for FoxRockX.
Tamar is author or co-author of ten books including the award winning Hacker's Guide to Visual FoxPro and Microsoft Office Automation with Visual FoxPro. Her most recent books are Making Sense of Sedna and SP2 and Taming Visual FoxPro's SQL. Her books are available from Hentzenwerke Publishing (www.hentzenwerke.com).
In 2007, Tamar received the Visual FoxPro Community Lifetime Achievement Award. She has received Microsoft Support's Most Valuable Professional award annually since the program's inception in 1993. Tamar speaks frequently about Visual FoxPro at conferences and user groups in North America and Europe. You can reach her at tamar@thegranors.com or through www.tomorrowssolutionsllc.com.
Tamar E. Granor will present "Getting Your Head Around Business Objects," previously seen at Southwest Fox 2009.
Abstract: 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.
Tamar E. Granor, Ph.D., is the owner of Tomorrow's Solutions, LLC. She has developed and enhanced numerous Visual FoxPro applications for businesses and other organizations. She currently focuses on working with other developers through consulting and subcontracting.
Tamar served as Editor of FoxPro Advisor magazine from 1994 to 2000 and was Technical Editor from 2000 to 2008. She served as co-author of the popular Advisor Answers column from 1993 to 2008. She has also written for FoxTalk and CoDe; she currently writes for FoxRockX.
Tamar is author or co-author of ten books including the award winning Hacker's Guide to Visual FoxPro and Microsoft Office Automation with Visual FoxPro. Her most recent books are Making Sense of Sedna and SP2 and Taming Visual FoxPro's SQL. Her books are available from Hentzenwerke Publishing (www.hentzenwerke.com).
In 2007, Tamar received the Visual FoxPro Community Lifetime Achievement Award. She has received Microsoft Support's Most Valuable Professional award annually since the program's inception in 1993. Tamar speaks frequently about Visual FoxPro at conferences and user groups in North America and Europe. You can reach her at tamar@thegranors.com or through www.tomorrowssolutionsllc.com.
Tuesday, August 4, 2009
August 11--Tamar Granor: Top 10 (or more) Reasons to Use the Toolbox
The Southwest Fox rehearsals continue at our next meeting on Tuesday, August 11. As usual, feel free to bring dinner and come as early as 6:30.
Tamar E. Granor will present "Top Ten (or more) Reasons to Use the Toolbox":
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 web links.
Tamar E. Granor, Ph.D., is the owner of Tomorrow's Solutions, LLC. She has developed and enhanced numerous Visual FoxPro applications for businesses and other organizations. She currently focuses on working with other developers through consulting and subcontracting.
Tamar served as Editor of FoxPro Advisor magazine from 1994 to 2000 and was Technical Editor from 2000 to 2008. She served as co-author of the popular Advisor Answers column from 1993 to 2008. She has also written for FoxTalk and CoDe; she currently writes for FoxRockX.
Tamar is author or co-author of ten books including the award winning Hacker's Guide to Visual FoxPro and Microsoft Office Automation with Visual FoxPro. Her most recent books are Making Sense of Sedna and SP2 and Taming Visual FoxPro's SQL. Her books are available from Hentzenwerke Publishing (www.hentzenwerke.com).
In 2007, Tamar received the Visual FoxPro Community Lifetime Achievement Award. She has received Microsoft Support's Most Valuable Professional award annually since the program's inception in 1993. Tamar speaks frequently about Visual FoxPro at conferences and user groups in North America and Europe.
You can reach her at tamar@thegranors.com or through www.tomorrowssolutionsllc.com.
Also, mark your calendar for Tuesday, September 8, when Toni Feltman will present "Introduction to Subversion and Tortoise SVN."
Tamar E. Granor will present "Top Ten (or more) Reasons to Use the Toolbox":
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 web links.
Tamar E. Granor, Ph.D., is the owner of Tomorrow's Solutions, LLC. She has developed and enhanced numerous Visual FoxPro applications for businesses and other organizations. She currently focuses on working with other developers through consulting and subcontracting.
Tamar served as Editor of FoxPro Advisor magazine from 1994 to 2000 and was Technical Editor from 2000 to 2008. She served as co-author of the popular Advisor Answers column from 1993 to 2008. She has also written for FoxTalk and CoDe; she currently writes for FoxRockX.
Tamar is author or co-author of ten books including the award winning Hacker's Guide to Visual FoxPro and Microsoft Office Automation with Visual FoxPro. Her most recent books are Making Sense of Sedna and SP2 and Taming Visual FoxPro's SQL. Her books are available from Hentzenwerke Publishing (www.hentzenwerke.com).
In 2007, Tamar received the Visual FoxPro Community Lifetime Achievement Award. She has received Microsoft Support's Most Valuable Professional award annually since the program's inception in 1993. Tamar speaks frequently about Visual FoxPro at conferences and user groups in North America and Europe.
You can reach her at tamar@thegranors.com or through www.tomorrowssolutionsllc.com.
Also, mark your calendar for Tuesday, September 8, when Toni Feltman will present "Introduction to Subversion and Tortoise SVN."
Wednesday, June 3, 2009
Another exciting summer of Southwest Fox previews
Thanks to Southwest Fox, our summer schedule is full with exciting speakers. Menachem Bazian will visit in July, Toni Feltman will join us in September, and I'll fill the August meeting. Each of us will be previewing material for Southwest Fox. Session details to come soon.
June--Bob Pierce on VFP and the Internet
The Philadelphia VFP User Group will meet next Tuesday, June 9 at 7 PM at Valley Forge Pension Management, 715 Twining Road, Suite 202, Dresher, PA 19025. As usual, feel free to bring dinner and come as early as 6:30.
Bob Pierce will speak this month. His topic is "Nothing but Net": 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 subscription must be activated by 6/30/2009.)
Bob Pierce will speak this month. His topic is "Nothing but Net": 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 subscription must be activated by 6/30/2009.)
Tuesday, May 5, 2009
May meeting--Jerry Noble or search and bar code scanning
The Philadelphia VFP user group will meet next Tuesday, May 12, at 7 PM at Valley Forge Pension Management, 715 Twining Road, Suite 202, Dresher, PA 19025. As usual, feel free to bring some dinner and come as early as 6:30.
Member Jerry Noble will demonstrate his search engine which sequentially searches for customers on 10 different criteria using class code which allows for the use of navigation keys and auto-capitalization. He will also show how he uses a Bar Code Scanner to search for and populate the application with the information found on the Vehicle Registration Card.
Member Jerry Noble will demonstrate his search engine which sequentially searches for customers on 10 different criteria using class code which allows for the use of navigation keys and auto-capitalization. He will also show how he uses a Bar Code Scanner to search for and populate the application with the information found on the Vehicle Registration Card.
Wednesday, November 5, 2008
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
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
Tuesday, August 5, 2008
Menachem Bazian on setting up a LAMP Server
Menachem Bazian returns to the Philadelphia VFP User Group next week to continue his discussion about combining VFP with MySQL. This will be the first meeting on our new, seond Tuesday schedule. The meeting begins at 7 PM on August 12, but you're welcome to bring some dinner and arrive as early as 6:30 PM.
We meet at Valley Forge Pension Management, 715 Twining Road, Suite 202, Dresher, PA 19025. (Note that 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.)
Menachem Bazian, CPA (NY), CITP is the President of BC Consulting Services, Inc., a business management and technology consulting firm specializing in enhancing client efficiency with intelligent application of technology. He has been a Fox developer for over 20 years and is the author of three books and numerous articles on the topic. He was a featured speaker at DevCons for over a decade.
This session will discuss how to set up a LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) server. It's a continuation of his last session on MySQL, but those who missed that meeting can still benefit from this one.
We meet at Valley Forge Pension Management, 715 Twining Road, Suite 202, Dresher, PA 19025. (Note that 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.)
Menachem Bazian, CPA (NY), CITP is the President of BC Consulting Services, Inc., a business management and technology consulting firm specializing in enhancing client efficiency with intelligent application of technology. He has been a Fox developer for over 20 years and is the author of three books and numerous articles on the topic. He was a featured speaker at DevCons for over a decade.
This session will discuss how to set up a LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) server. It's a continuation of his last session on MySQL, but those who missed that meeting can still benefit from this one.
Monday, June 16, 2008
New meeting day--second Tuesday
To accommodate our hosts at Valley Forge Pension Management, and to try to accommodate more of our members, beginning with the August meeting, we'll meet on the second Tuesday of the month. So, our next few meeting dates are:
Wednesday, June 18 -- Marcia Akins (dinner provided)
Wednesday, July 16 -- Cathy Pountney (dinner provided)
Tuesday, August 12
Tuesday, September 9
The meeting starts at 7 PM, with bring-your-own dinner starting at 6:30 PM. We charge $5 per meeting.
Wednesday, June 18 -- Marcia Akins (dinner provided)
Wednesday, July 16 -- Cathy Pountney (dinner provided)
Tuesday, August 12
Tuesday, September 9
The meeting starts at 7 PM, with bring-your-own dinner starting at 6:30 PM. We charge $5 per meeting.
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